- Source: Lomboko
Lomboko was a slave factory in what is today Sierra Leone, controlled by the infamous Spanish slave trader Pedro Blanco. It consisted of several large depots or barracoons for slaves brought from the interior, as well as several palatial buildings for Blanco to house his wives, concubines, and employees.
Lomboko was on several small islands at the mouth of the Gallinas River, near Sulima on the Gallinas coast. Spanish slave merchants controlled the area, within the British colony of Sierra Leone. By 1839, about 2,000 enslaved people a year were coming out of the Gallinas River, despite the slave trade being illegal. In 1849, an expedition of the Royal Navy's slavery-fighting West Africa Squadron attacked Lomboko: the Royal Marines freed the slaves and then destroyed the fortress.
The fortress plays a prominent part in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad. In the movie, the main character Joseph Cinqué, as well as other slaves, were shown being captured and brought to Lomboko and treated cruelly. The slave liberation and destruction of the fortress is portrayed in the film's climax.
See also
Atlantic slave trade
References
Further reading
Thomas, Hugh (1997). The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-83565-7.
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- Amistad (film)
- Pedro Blanco (slave trader)
- United States v. The Amistad
- West Africa Squadron
- Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
- Tecora
- List of films featuring colonialism
- List of castles in Africa
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