Coffy

enslaved Akan man who leads a revolt in the Dutch colony of Berbice (Guyana)

1730 CE to 1763 CE

Cuffy, also spelled as Kofi or Koffi (died in 1763), is an Akan man who had been captured in his native West Africa and stolen for slavery to work on the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana.

He becomes famous because in 1763 he leads a revolt of more than twenty-five hundred slaves against the colonia lregime.

He is a national hero in today's Guyana.

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