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To: longnshort who wrote (69)	1/27/2005 8:21:52 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 5290

He became a slave ship owner HE DID????? Un-f'ing-believable if true. What a waste! WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT MOVIE AND THAT GUY??? ANYBODY? Edit: "Amistad" was the movie and the ship. Cinque was the slave. Here: Upon returning to Africa with the American Mende Mission, Cinque learned that his wife and family had been wiped out by slaving wars. Reportedly he procured a small stock of goods and set off to do some trading along the coast. Then he fell out of contact with the mission. Various legends and rumors had him becoming a slaver, or a tobacco merchant, or a chief, or an interpreter at another mission. One story claimed that as an old man decades later, he returned to the abolitionist mission to die. None of these versions of his life back in Africa can be conclusively confirmed. amistad.mysticseaport.org or Cinque returned to Africa with missionaries and the remaining Amistad survivors. After his return he discovered that his family could not be found and his entire village had been destroyed. It is suspected that his family was taken and sold into slavery. He became frustrated with the missionaries and eventually left the mission. He later returned, shortly before his death in 1879, instructing the missionaries to provide him with a Christian burial. law.umkc.edu Lost in the murky corners of history.