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Cinque (b.1800?) Chief of the Mendi Africans, captured by slave traders in 1839, led a revolt aboard the "Amistad", eventually freed and returned to Africa at public expense by a ruling of the U.S. supreme court.
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds. Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton, 1888) 616.
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