Joseph Cinqué
Deceased Person
1814 – 1879
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Who was Joseph Cinqué?
Sengbe Pieh, later known as Joseph Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people and was the most prominent defendant in the case United States v. The Amistad, in which it was found that he and 51 others had been victims of the illegal Atlantic slave trade.
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- Born
- 1814
Sierra Leone - Also known as
- Joseph Cinque
- Singbe Pieh
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Ethnicity
- Mende people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- 1879
Sierra Leone
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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