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Amistad Slave Captives Biography and Sketches

The descriptions that follow are from A History of the Amistad Captives by John W. Barber (1840).

(1.) Sing-gbe, [Cin-gue,] (generally spelt Cinque~) was born in Ma-ni, in Dzho-poa, i.e. in the open land, in the Mendi-country. The distance from Mani to Lomboko, he says, is ten suns, or days. His mother is dead, and he lived with his father. He has a wife and three children, one son and two daughters. His son’s name is Ge-waw, (God.) His king, Ka-lum-bo, lived at Kaw-men-di, a large town in the Mendi country. He is a planter of rice, and never owned or sold slaves. He was seized by four men, when traveling in the road, and his right hand tied to his neck. Ma-ya-gi-la-lo sold him to Ba-ma-dzha, son of Shaka, king of Gen-du-ma, in the Read more…