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Gallinas River (Sierra Leone)

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The Gallinas River in Liberia reaches the Atlantic between Grand Cape Mount and Cape Saint Ann; the area was infamous in the 1800s for its active participation in the slave trade under the Gallinas people.[1]

In 1840 Richard Doherty, the Governor of Sierra Leone, discovered that Fry Norman a Black British subject and her child were being held as slaves on the islands at the mouth of the Gallinas River.

References

  1. ^ Teah Wulah (22 May 2008). Back to Africa: A Liberian Tragedy. AuthorHouse. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-4389-1897-6.