Qualla: Lomboko https://qualla.com/lomboko en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lomboko https://qualla.com/lomboko Lomboko: Introduction https://qualla.com/lomboko/ Among the low islands at the mouth of the Gallinas River, in what is now southern Sierra Leone, men, women, and children waited in the dark to be sold. They had been marched here from the interior, sometimes for weeks, and crowded into long sheds called barracoons - holding pens for human beings. The place was called Lomboko, and in 1839 one of the people held here was a young rice farmer named Sengbe Pieh. He would be put aboard a ship, carried across the ocean, and become, against every intention of the men who sold him, one of the most famous figures in the long history of resistance to slavery.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/z/lomboko-wp/e9pz-lomboko-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lomboko: The Machinery of a Crime https://qualla.com/lomboko/ By the late 1830s the Atlantic slave trade was illegal under British law and widely outlawed elsewhere - and it was still running, openly, on the Gallinas coast. Lomboko was its engine here: a complex of barracoons capable of holding thousands of enslaved people at once, run by a...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/z/lomboko-wp/e9pz-lomboko-the-machinery-of-a-crime.mp3 0:06 2 full Lomboko: Sengbe Pieh's Long Road https://qualla.com/lomboko/ In early 1839, Sengbe Pieh - a Mende man, married, a father - was seized, marched to Lomboko, and sold to Pedro Blanco. From there he was forced aboard a slave ship bound for Cuba, surviving a Middle Passage that killed many around him. In Havana he was sold again, given the Span...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/z/lomboko-wp/e9pz-lomboko-sengbe-piehs-long-road.mp3 0:06 3 full Lomboko: The Day the Barracoons Burned https://qualla.com/lomboko/ Lomboko's end came at the hands of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, the fleet charged with hunting down the illegal trade. On 19 November 1840, Commander Joseph Denman led some 120 sailors and marines in small boats up the Gallinas River. Over three days they freed the ensl...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/p/z/lomboko-wp/e9pz-lomboko-the-day-the-barracoons-burned.mp3 0:06 4 full Lomboko: What the Estuary Remembers https://qualla.com/lomboko/ Today there is little to mark Lomboko - the islands are low and mangrove-fringed, the structures long vanished, the exact sites debated by historians. The wider world knows the name mainly through Steven Spielberg's 1997 film Amistad, which dramatizes the capture and cruel confin...

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