# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-cinque
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:39:22.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-cinque"
name: "Joseph Cinqué"
slug: "joseph-cinque"
description: "Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinqué or Cinquez and sometimes referred to mononymously as Cinqué, was a West African man of the Mende people who led a revolt of many Africans on the Spanish slave ship La Amistad in July 1839. After the ship was taken into custody by the US Revenue-Marine, Cinqué and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing officers on the ship, in a case known as United States v. The Amistad. This reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Cinqué and his fellow Africans were found to have rightfully defended themselves from being enslaved through the illegal Atlantic slave trade and were released. The US government did not provide any aid to the acquitted Mende People. The United Missionary Society, a black group founded by James W.C. Pennington, helped raise money for the return of thirty-five of the survivors to Sierra Leone in 1842."
tagline: "Leader of La Amistad slave revolt"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sengbe_Pieh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1814"
deathDate: "1879"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.84
  momentum:             15.12724550898204
  historical:           11.994832
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinque"
    title: "Joseph Cinque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "جوزيف سينكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinque"
    title: "Joseph Cinque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengbe_Pieh"
    title: "Sengbe Pieh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9"
    title: "Joseph Cinqué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengbe_Pieh"
    title: "Sengbe Pieh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9"
    title: "Joseph Cinqué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9"
    title: "Joseph Cinqué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9"
    title: "Joseph Cinqué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinqu%C3%A9"
    title: "Joseph Cinqué"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A3_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "ג'וזף סינקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cinque"
    title: "Joseph Cinque"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengbe_Pieh"
    title: "Sengbe Pieh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B1%D0%B5_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5"
    title: "Сенгбе Пье"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1397714"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump