Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "James Covey (né Kai Nyangua; c. 1819 – ?) was the interpreter used in the Amistad slave ship case (40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841)) who spoke Mende and possibly other African languages. Covey was born in Africa about 1819. At twelve years of age, he was kidnapped from his Sierra Leone village by an unknown black man. He was sold at a slave holding camp called Lomboko. Covey was placed upon a ship headed for Cuba, even though the Trans-Atlantic slave trade had already been outlawed."@en }
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- James_Covey comment "James Covey (né Kai Nyangua; c. 1819 – ?) was the interpreter used in the Amistad slave ship case (40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841)) who spoke Mende and possibly other African languages. Covey was born in Africa about 1819. At twelve years of age, he was kidnapped from his Sierra Leone village by an unknown black man. He was sold at a slave holding camp called Lomboko. Covey was placed upon a ship headed for Cuba, even though the Trans-Atlantic slave trade had already been outlawed.".
- Q6131810 comment "James Covey (né Kai Nyangua; c. 1819 – ?) was the interpreter used in the Amistad slave ship case (40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841)) who spoke Mende and possibly other African languages. Covey was born in Africa about 1819. At twelve years of age, he was kidnapped from his Sierra Leone village by an unknown black man. He was sold at a slave holding camp called Lomboko. Covey was placed upon a ship headed for Cuba, even though the Trans-Atlantic slave trade had already been outlawed.".