A leader of the 1763 Berbice slave uprising in present-day Guyana
Cuffy was an African Akan man, who was enslaved in the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. In 1763, he led a major slave revolt of around 5,000 slaves against the Dutch colonists. The slave revolt was eventually suppressed and Cuffy committed suicide. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana.
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