Gate to the old Kings Yard
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National Monument in Sierra Leone 
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| Monument type | Monument ( gate ) | ||
| location | Connaught Hospital , Freetown | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 8 ° 29 '17.7 " N , 13 ° 14' 17.6" W | ||
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| Emergence | 1819 | ||
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Recognized by the Monuments and Relics Commission |
1949 | ||
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| Website | Website | ||
The gateway to the Old Kings Yard ( English Gateway to the Old Kings Yard ) is a national monument (since 1949) of the African state of Sierra Leone in Freetown .
It is proposed for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List .
history
Once in the UK , the slavery had been abolished in 1808, the attempted Royal Navy lively slaves exported from Africa to prevent and brought it all the slave trade ships on which she met on the Atlantic Ocean. The angry ships were taken to the nearest crown colony of Sierra Leone, where a court dealt with the legal aspects of the confiscation of the human goods and the ships.
The ships docked at King Jimmy Wharf and the freed slaves were temporarily housed in a nearby area called Kings Yard after the berth . Almost all ancestors of the Creole population of Sierra Leone temporarily inhabited the Kings Yard, including personalities such as the first Anglican bishop in Africa, Samuel Adjai Crowther, or the first African member of the legislature of the crown colony, John Ezzidio .
With the increasing bans on the slave trade in the 19th century, the court and the Kings Yard lost their importance and their operations finally ceased around 1870. Around 1880 the building on Kings Yard was converted into a hospital, but it was destroyed in a fire in 1920.
The only remnant of the complex is the gate, which was built in 1819 based on an engraving above the archway. There is an inscription on the gate, the text of which reads:
- ROYAL ASYLUM AND HOSPITAL FOR AFRICANS
- RESCUED FROM SLAVERY BY BRITISH VALOR
- AND PHILANTHROPY
Today the gate leads to part of the Connaught Hospital .
See also
Web links
- Official website of SierraLeoneHeritage.org (English)
- Website of the Tourism Office of Sierra Leone as a national monument (English)
- Documentation and Inventory of Immovable Cultural Heritage 2009 (English; PDF; 35 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tentative Lists Sierra Leone. Retrieved June 1, 2012, June 16, 2014