Lomboko

Lomboko

Lomboko apparently refers to a stockaded compound created by the infamous Spanish trader Pedro Blanco. It contained several large holding depots or barracoons for slaves brought from the interior. Lomboko stood on an island near Sulima on the Gallinas coast that was controlled by Spanish slave merchants. The location is now within the modern country of Sierra Leone. By 1839, about 2,000 slaves a year were coming out of the Gallinas River, despite the fact that the slave trade had been made illegal. In 1849 a British Royal Navy expedition destroyed the slave factories at Lomboko on the Gallinas River. All the slaves found in the fortress were freed by the Royal Marines. Lomboko was then completely destroyed.

The fortress plays a prominent part in the Steven Spielberg film "Amistad".


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