Cuffy (slave)

Cuffy, also known as Kofi Badu, also spelled as Coffij, Coffy, Cuffy, Kofi, or Koffi (died in 1763), was an African Akan man who was a slave in the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. In 1763, he led a major slave revolt of around 5,000 slaves against the Dutch. The slave revolt was eventually suppressed and Cuffy committed suicide. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana.

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