Fort Lomboko
| Fort Lomboko | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1839 | |
| Conservation status: | destroyed (1849) | |
| Place: | Sulima | |
| Geographical location | 6 ° 58 '10 " N , 11 ° 34' 30" W | |
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The Fort Lomboko was before 1839 by Spanish colonists built Fort on the coast of present-day Sierra Leone . It served as a base for the slave trader Pedro Blanco . It consisted of several forts , camps and slave - barracks ( Spanish barracoon ).
The plants were located on various islands in the Gallinas River , not far from Sulima .
Spanish slave traders controlled this area of the British colony of British West Africa . By 1839, 2000 slaves were being shipped from Lomboko every year. In 1849 the fort was attacked by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and completely destroyed.
Cinematic reception
The fort and the slave Sengbe Pieh play an important role in the 1997 film Amistad by Steven Spielberg .
See also
literature
- Thomas Hugh: The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870. Simon & Schuster, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-83565-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance, Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling . Yale University Press, 2015, ISBN 0-300-19845-0 , p. 118.
- ↑ Marcus Rediker: The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom . Penguin, 2012, ISBN 1-101-60105-1 .
- ^ Robert Grayson: The Amistad . ABDO Pub., Edina, Minn. 2011, ISBN 1-61714-761-3 , p. 7.
- ↑ Anna Zafiris: The Representation of African Americans in Steven Spielberg's 'Amistad' . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-640-52511-6 , p. 4.