Places | People | The numbers | The nitty gritty | Hodge Poedge |
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What is Mende
The country to Sengbe Pieh's origin
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Who are Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montes
The men who bought the Africans
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What is 500
The number of Africans kidnapped and sold into slavery in African
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What is by picking the lock with a nail
How Sengbe Pieh escaped his shackles
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What is 1839
The year in which this all happened
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What is Cuba
The country to which the Africans were transported
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Who is Sengbe Pieh
The leader of the mutiny
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What is 1/3 or 164
The number of Africans who died on the journey to Cuba
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What is the cook jokingly told them the Africans were going to be killed and cooked
The reason Sengbe led a mutiny
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What is Ruiz and Montes sailed West during the day but East at night
How the Africans ended up in the United States
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What is Havana
The city in which the Africans were sold
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What is Joseph Cinque
What did the Spaniards call Sengbe Pieh
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What is 54
The number of African captives aboard the Amistad
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What are machetes or sugarcane knives
The weapons used by the Africans as they fought for their freedom
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What is mutiny and murder
The reasons the Africans were arrested
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What is Long Island
The island on which the Africans landed to try to trade for supplies
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Who is Roger Baldwin
The lawyer who defended the Africans
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What is 2
The number of Spaniards who were killed during the mutiny
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What is 3
The number of times the Africans went on trial
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What is no one understood Mende
The reason no one asked to hear the Africans' side of the story
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What is New Haven
The city in which the Africans were jailed while awaiting trial
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Who is John Quincy Adams
The former president who advocated for the Africans
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What is 2
The number of Africans who were killed during the mutiny
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What is the mutiny did not happen on American sold or proprty
The reason the Africans were not tried for mutiny in the United States
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What is slavery was illegal in New York, but legal in Connecticut
The reason the Africans were transported to Connecticut
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