Sengbe Pieh: The slave who fought his way back home

Name: Sengbe Pieh: The slave who fought his way back home
Uploaded: 2021-05-11T14:29:47+00:00
Duration: 2 min
Channel: DW (English)
Description: 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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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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