Ruins of John Newton's house and slave barracks on Plantain Island
| Ruins of John Newton's House and slave barracoons, Plantain Island | |||
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National Monument in Sierra Leone 
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| Monument type | monument | ||
| location | Plantain Island | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 7 ° 54 '37.4 " N , 12 ° 59' 20.6" W | ||
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| Emergence | around 1750 | ||
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Recognized by the Monuments and Relics Commission |
1949 | ||
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| Website | Website | ||
The ruins of John Newton's house and slave barracoons ( English Ruins of John Newton's House and slave barracoons ) are a national monument of the African state of Sierra Leone . You are on a peninsula on Plantain Island . The condition of the monument (status 2007) can be described as poor.
The navigator and slave trader John Newton first traveled to Sierra Leone around 1744. Between 1748 and 1754 he was again on the coast of Sierra Leone for at least three months. Newton built a home and slave trade facilities on Plantain Island.
description
The ruins consist of an L-shaped wall that is seven to eight feet (about 2.1 to 2.4 meters) high. There are broken panes of glass at the top. Another wall could have been the entrance to the cellar vault or the walling of a spring. In addition, there is a clearly visible foundation of a building and a very well-preserved cannon at the site.
Web links
- Official website of SierraLeoneHeritage.org (English)
- Documentation and Inventory of Immovable Cultural Heritage 2009 (English; PDF; 35 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Ruins of John Newton's House and slave barracoons, Plantain Island. SierraLeoneHeritage.org, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2014