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Sengbe Pieh: A slave returning

May 11, 2021

Sengbe Pieh, a farmer and trader from Sierra Leone was taken into slavery in 1839. During the voyage to the so-called New World, he led a mutiny aboard the Amistad, an event that galvanized the abolitionist movement.

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