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SENGBE PIEH; HERO OF THE AMISTAD REVOLT

Sengbe Pieh was a Mende farmer whose extraordinary courage in resisting slavery earned him a lasting place in the histories of Sierra Leone and the United States. Sengbe was captured in his rice farm in January, 1839 and ultimately sold to a Spanish slave trader near modern Sulima. He was then transported across the Atlantic to Havana, Cuba and sold at an auction, along with forty-eight other Sierra Leoneans, to a Spanish sugar planter named Jose Ruiz. The Spaniard placed his slaves aboard a ship called the Amistad for a short trip to his plantation, but on the third day at sea, Sengbe pulled a loose spike from the deck and broke his chains and those of his fellow slaves. He discovered cane knives in the cargo hold, armed his men, mostly Mende, and led them onto the deck.

They killed the captain and drove the crew overboard and then Sengbe ordered their would-be master to sail the Amistad back to Sierra Leone. The Spaniard tried to trick the Africans by turning the ship toward Cuba at night, but a storm drove the Amistad northeast along the coast of the United States. Sengbe and his men were captured by the United States Navy off Long island, New York. And charged with murder and piracy, but a dedicated group of American abolitionists came immediately to their defense.

The Americans formed the" Amistad Committee" which recruited prominent lawyers to argue for the captured Mendes who were finally freed when former President John Quincy Adams argued their case before the United States Supreme Court. Sengbe Pieh , also known as James Cinque in the United States became a celebrity in the free Northern States, and thousands of people bought his portrait and paid to see him speak on the evils of slavery. Sengbe returned with his men to Sierra Leone in January, 1842 together with the first of many American missionaries to come to these shores. In the United States the Amistad Committee, originally set up for the defense of Sengbe and his fellow Mendes, continued to fight for an end to slavery and, after emancipation, set up hundreds of schools and colleges for the newly freed slaves. Today, Sengbe’s picture hangs in some public buildings and black colleges in the United States, and no history book on the American slavery era is complete without an account of his courageous deeds. Although still largely unknown in his own country, Sengbe Pieh deserves to be recognized as one of the most famous and influential Sierra Leoneans who ever lived.

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Comment by Teresa on March 14, 2011 at 7:20pm
I READ WERE THE SHARKS DIDN'T BECOME MANEATERS, UNTIL THE SLAVE TRADE. IT WAS BECAUSE THEY THREW THE SLAVE BODIES (ALIVE AND DEAD) OVERBOARD. I READ THAT THE SHARKS WOULD FOLLOW THE SHIPS, SMH WICKED !
Comment by Joan Gregori on July 29, 2010 at 1:19pm
Comment by Denise Gonzalez on March 13, 2010 at 1:50pm
It's all so horrific and sad. At least you were able to hear these stories even though they are evil......have you watched NBC friday evenings new show Who Do You Think You Are? Great! Emmett Smith did his roots last night and it was so interesting...check it out. Go to NBC,com and check the video section for ancestry.com and Emmett Smith it's the full length version full screen.
Comment by Islamic1(Hassiem) on March 13, 2010 at 5:35am
as salaamu alaikum Denise my sister.thank you very much.that is some site and it does send chills through you listening to their voices and just imagining what they went through.I recall stories from my great grandmother that was told to her by her great grandparents about working in the fields from sunrise to sunset and the only days they did not work the fields was when it rained.also of being raped by the masters as husbands and even children could only stand there and listen to what was going on in the barn or even the other room.

Ma.s Salama(With Peace) HASSIEM
Comment by Denise Gonzalez on March 12, 2010 at 10:03am
This is an online book to read, written by a former slave girl. Very Good!! A MUST READ.

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Harriet_Jacobs/Incidents_in_the_Life...
Comment by Denise Gonzalez on March 12, 2010 at 10:00am
Go to this site and hear the actual voices of former slaves from the early 1900's recorded by the WPA. They are short snippets, but it's their actual voices and sends chills through you.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/memories/index_flash.html
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