Sengbe Pieh (1814 – 1879), was a West African man of the Mende people of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 who led a revolt of many enslaved Africans on the Spanish 🇪🇸 slave ship La Amistad. Pieh freed himself and others from their shackles. They killed the captain, cook, and two other... 
crew members. After the ship was taken into custody by the United States 🇺🇸 Revenue Cutter Service, Sengbe Pieh and his fellow Africans were eventually tried for mutiny and killing of officers on the ship, in a case known as United States v. The Amistad.
This case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where Sengbe Pieh and his fellow Africans were found to have rightfully defended themselves from being enslaved through the illegal Atlantic slave trade and were released.
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