Pongo River (Guinea)

The Pongo River or Rio Pongo is a river that flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Boffa, Guinea. Its source is located in Fouta Djallon.[1] The surrounding area has also been known as "Pongoland" or "Bongo Country".[2]

History

Rio Pongo became a significant area for the setting up factories in the transatlantic slave trade.[3] Sir George Collier listed 76 surnames of families involved in the slave trade in 1820.[4]:35 He was commodore of the British West Africa Squadron between 1818 and 1821 and as such organised anti-slaving patrols up the Pongo River and other surrounding areas.

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References

  1. ↑ "Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century". Black Past.Org. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  2. ↑ See Samuel Crighton's Baptismal entry in the All Saints, Poplar, parish register of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets referring to the baptism of Samuel Crighton, son of William Fernandez, a local Luso-African King.
  3. ↑ Mouser, Bruce L. (1973). "Trade, Coasters and conflict in the Rio Pongo from 1790 to 1808". The Journal of African History. 14 (1): 45–64. doi:10.1017/s0021853700012160. JSTOR 180776.
  4. ↑ Mouser, Bruce L. (2016). "Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An Historical and Micro Perspective". In Knörr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph. The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. New York:: Berghahn Books. pp. 21–39. Retrieved 15 October 2016.

Coordinates: 10°3′N 14°4′W / 10.050°N 14.067°W / 10.050; -14.067


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