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22: 202:. It is only towards the end of the 18th Century, as demand for slaves kept rising, that slave traders took an interest in previously marginal areas like the Gallinas River. After the British ban on the slave trade in 1808, closing down the major depots, the obscurity of Gallinas River allowed slave traders to continue their activities there. 189:
The Gallinas area was actually not very active in the slave trade, or any kind of trade for that matter, before this time. Its forbidding dense mangrove swamps and relatively sparse population, led the Gallinas River to be largely overlooked by European traders. During the heyday of the slave trade,
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to force the king both to free Norman and abolish the slave trade in his dominions. Denman promptly sailed up the Gallinas River to destroy Spanish slave barracoons.
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Jorge Felipe Gonzalez (2021) "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Galinhas in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790–1820",
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subject and her child were being held as slaves on the islands at the mouth of the Gallinas River, which prompted Lieutenant
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From Slaves to Palm Kernels: A History of the Galinhas Country (West Africa), 1730-1890
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that were found by its banks. The first Portuguese explorer to reach the region was
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The term comes from the Portuguese "Rio das Galinhas" (River of Hens), referring to
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Lino Novas Calvo, Pedro Blanco, el negrero (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1973)
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The area was infamous in the 1800s for its active participation in the
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Strictly speaking, the Gallinas River is an archaic term for the small
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
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Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
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the major entrepots in the region were elsewhere, notably at
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in 1461 or 1462. The name "Rio das Galinhas" is found in
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This article related to a river in Sierra Leone is a
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Sierra Leone
Atlantic
Cape Saint Ann
Grand Cape Mount
Kerefe river
7°0′52″N 11°37′29″W / 7.01444°N 11.62472°W / 7.01444; -11.62472
Moa River
Mano River
Guinea fowl
Pedro de Sintra
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
exonym
Gallinas people
slave trade
Gallinas people
Bunce Island
Sherbro Island
Cape Mount
Pedro Blanco
Richard Doherty
Governor
Sierra Leone
Black British
Joseph Denman
Back to Africa: A Liberian Tragedy
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