Talk:Mende people

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I have restored an older version of the article, incorporating some recent edits but leaving out all unsourced statements. Please read Cite your sources, Wikipedia:Verifiability and especially Wikipedia:Weasel words before re-adding statements along the lines of "Attributed to the Mende-speaking peoples are our earliest indirect indications of seafaring" or the extremely disinformed "The Mende language may be traced to the ancient peoples of Papua New Guinea". — mark ✎ 14:43, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Amistad Section

The paragraph about the Mendi people who were sold into slavery, rebelled on the slave ship at Cuba, ended up in the United States, were tried, and freed, seems to have some innacuracies. Namely, as far as to my knowledge, they never worked on plantations, and Montes and Ruiz were not necessarily plantation owners, but slave traders bringing them from Havana to another part of Cuba to sell. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.147.135.10 (talk) 02:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC).