Qualla: Sherbro Island https://qualla.com/sherbro-island 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: Sherbro Island https://qualla.com/sherbro-island Sherbro Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/sherbro-island/ A 17th-century king gave this island his name. He was called Sherabola, or Selboele, and he ruled here through the first half of the 1600s, when Sherbro was the heart of one of the region's great kingdoms. The name stuck to the land long after the man was gone. Today it belongs to a 32-mile stretch of low tropical coast in southern Sierra Leone, separated from the African mainland by the Sherbro River and the Sherbro Strait, fringed with more than 65 miles of beaches and edged at its western tip by Cape St. Ann.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/q/f/sherbro-island-wp/e9qf-sherbro-island-an-american-dream-a-harder-reality.mp3 0:06 4 full Sherbro Island: Where Cinque Came to Rest https://qualla.com/sherbro-island/ The island holds one more thread of the freedom story. Sengbe Pieh - known in America as Joseph Cinque - was the man who in 1839 broke his chains aboard the schooner Amistad and led the revolt that became a landmark case in the fight against slavery. Born in this region of Sierra...

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