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More On Sengbeh Pleh “Joseph Cinque”, Who Led The Amistad Revolt)
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I am quiic sure that tor months and
even years to come there w ill he
fascinating details and nuances to
surlace in respect to this important
account ot a significant episode in a
suppressed African .American his
tory.
Accordingly. I have appended here
a very comprehensive bibliography,
including an 'Internet' reference.
I here are beautiful personal accounts
ol a simple African farmer in the
B ritish Colons ol Sierra I cone
( IK AK >. A hard-vv h i king man with a
w ile and three children
none ot
them hadever seen u whileman Sev
eral bad crops resulted in a loan
default to the d u e l ol his village w ho
sold him into slavery A tale toooften
told
And at the otherend o f this saga
are the poignant, sometimes bitter
story o f "C inque s" return to his
A frican village in M enili only to
find all fam ily gone forever There
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The greatest health risk, even
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is so much o f a lu ll (loo fu ll) and
marv elous life here, that there is no
way that the drama, power and
meaning could he captured in a
single movie, article or book The
last 35 years o f Ins life on the
A frican continent as farmer and
translator for C hristian m issionar
ies is a story in its e lf E njoy!
Sources and Documentation.
Dr Russell Adams. Chairman ol
the African American History De
partment at Howard University rec
ommends. "History o f the Amistad
Revolt" and "Black M utiny"
Currently see.
,
M u tin y On The Amistad", a
detailed article in the December is
sue ol the Smithsonian Magazine
"Sengbeh Pieh". Steve Courtney.
_ AFR O A m erie @ :B lack Re
sistance - Slavery in the U S
http //in te ra c t co uran tco m /sp e -
c ia l/b h i s to ry/cin q uez.htm
Specific m the literature.
Mutiny on the Amistad: the Saga
ot a Slave Revolt and Ils Impact on
American A b olition I aw. and Di
plomacy, by Howard Jones Oxford
University Press, 1987
Black Odyssey : The case o f the
slave ship Amistad, by Mary Cable.
Penguin Books. 1971
Slave M utiny The case o f the
slave ship Amistad, by Mary Cable
Penguin Books. 1971
Slave M untiy: The Revolt on the
Schooner Amistad, by W illiam A
Owens The John Day Company.
1953
A rg u m e n t o f John Q u in c y
Adams before the Supreme C ourt
o f the U n ite d States, in the case
o l th e U S a p p e lla n ts , vs.
C inque, and other A fric a n s , ca p
tured in the schooner A m ista d .
New Y o rk . 1841 A H is to ry ol
the A m is ta d C aptives by John
W arner B arber 1840.
A ll leans Taken in the A m istad
(U S 26th Cong
1st Sess. I I
Exec Doc I 85) New Y o rk, 1840
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