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	Notes on T. J. Alldridge, "A Transformed Colony: Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is"
		A Mendi chief was appointed in Freetown to accommodate the influx of tribe members to the colony.
		Mendis or Kossos : Many members of the Mendi tribe were employed to construct the Sierra Leone Government Railway.
		before long, with the training that the Government school at Bo is giving them, the latent intelligence of this this great tribe [Mendi] will be developed, and we shall find in them qualities, administrative, commercial, and social...
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/archives/sec/s-leone.htm

	WOODS MUSEUM SIERRA LEONE RESEARCH
		Soapstone (Steatite) statues called Pombo, meaning "the image of Death," are very similar in style to the Nomori statues of the Mendi tribe in Sierra Leone, so much so that it is difficult to distinguish between them.
		Mende Helmet masks express the beauty of women as well as their power, both spiritual and political- life having sprung from the waters, women's wombs, and the earth's soil.
		The statues, being phallic in form, were stuck head first into the earth at sowing festivals symbolically fertilizing the grain.
	www.nsu.edu /resources/woods/sleone.htm

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		The Mendi tribe, the West African people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, had a lot of wars and were living in villages and towns.
		The chiefs of the tribes were warriors and protectors; war captives served as slaves for the Mende tribe.Mende speak mandigo languge of the subfamily of the Niger-Congo.Their religon is on a god and creator who aproaches spirits including ancestors.
		They are also worn by the Mende girls in ceremonies.
	www.newton.mec.edu /MemorialSpaulding/Amistad/mende.html

	SS Mendi Liner :More than 600 souls of the Native Labour Corps lost their lives on the 21st Feb 1917
		on the 21st of Feb 1917 the liner SS Mendi carrying hundreds of South African black troops (whom the majority were of the Pondo tribe from the Eastern Cape of South Africa) was slipping across the English Channel,bound for Le Havre,and carrying no lights.
		Another darkened vessel a British Liner SS Darro crashed into her and the Mendi began to sink rapidly.(The SS Darro did not stop to render assistance.) Every man as he came up from below went straight to his appointed place and then stood quietly awaiting orders.
		In South Africa, the Prime Minister, a Boer war general, Louis Botha, moved a motion of sympathy for the bereaved and spontaneously, the entire white Parliament rose to its feet in respect for the drowned warriors; the only occasion which such a tribute to black example ever was paid there.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~heathcote/ssmendiliner.html

	WOODS MUSEUM SIERRA LEONE RESEARCH
		Soapstone (Steatite) statues called Pombo, meaning "the image of Death," are very similar in style to the Nomori statues of the Mendi tribe in Sierra Leone, so much so that it is difficult to distinguish between them.
		Most have a round, columnar, phallic form, with a small head, others have exaggerated breasts, and some are in crouching positions with oversized heads.
	www.nsu.edu /resources/woods/sleone.htm (553 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven (4458 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Enpsychlopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut (4458 words)

	Contents of Amistad
		Synopsis of the actual incident: In 1839, 53 young men and women from the Mendi tribe in Sierra Leone, West Africa, were sold to Spanish slave traders aboard a ship called the Amistad, bound for Cuba.
		Under the leadership of one of their fellow captives, Joseph Cinque, the Mendis attacked the ship's crew and tried to steer themselves back to Africa.
		Cinque, the de facto leader and spokesman for the group of prisoners (because of his reputation as a man who has fought lions)
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/popcult/moviestuff/amistadf.htm (4458 words)

	SIERRA LEONE - LoveToKnow Article on SIERRA LEONE
		The oil-palm and kola-nut tree are especially abundant in the Sherbro district and its hinterland, the Mendi country.
		Freetown is peopled by descendants of nearly every negro tribe, and a distinct type known as the Sierra Leoni has been evolved; their language is pidgin English.
		The broad estuary which separates Sherbro Island from the mainland, and is popularly called the Sherbro river, receives the Bagru from the N.W. and the Jong river, whose headstream, known as the Taia, Pampana and Sanden, flows for a considerable distance east of and parallel to the Rokell.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIERRA_LEONE.htm (4458 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven (4417 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven (4481 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut (4417 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut (4403 words)

	Amistad Slave Revolt Case Documents
		Transported to the Caribbean aboard the Portuguese vessel, Tecora, the captives, from the Mendi tribe on the northern border of Nigeria, were not slaves but legally free men who had been illegally enslaved.
		In 1839 a Portuguese slave trader purchased a cargo of about 50 kidnapped African natives from a Spaniard involved in the slave trade on the Guinea Coast of West Africa.
		The Africans, led by the Mende warrior Singbe-Piéh, named Cinquè by the slave traders, insisted that they be freed and returned to their continent.
	paperlessarchives.com /amistad.html (860 words)

	New Haven, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Haven was home to one of the important early events in the burgeoning anti-slavery movement when, in 1839, the trial of mutineering Mendi tribesmen being transported as slaves on the Spanish slaveship Amistad was held in New Haven's United States District Court.
		Before European arrival, New Haven was the home of the Quinnipiack tribe of Native Americans, who lived in villages around the harbor and subsisted off of local fisheries and the farming of maize.
		New Haven was incorporated as a city in 1784, and Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the "Connecticut Compromise", became the new city's first mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Haven (4506 words)

	Amistad Mission
		The Amistad was a slave ship, sized in 1839 by African captives, members of the Mendi tribe of Sierra Leone, who forced it to sail to the shores of Connecticut.
		The Amistad message also calls attention to the issues of racism, bigotry, greed, injustice, and intolerance, which are the causes of so much violence in the world today.
		That original Amistad Committee continued to meet after the captives were freed and later evolved into the American Missionary Association, the first anti-slavery missionary association in the United States.
	pages.cthome.net /putnam_church/amistad_mission.html (4506 words)

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