In this colony, Pedro Blanco ran an illegal Spanish slave-trading operation at Lomboko on the Gallinas River in the 1820s and 1830s despite the efforts of the West Africa Squadron. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this colony whose indigenous Mende people lived alongside the Krio descendants of immigrants from Cudjoe’s Town as well as the founders of a settlement named after Granville Sharp.
ANSWER: Sierra Leone
[10e] Mende captives sold by Pedro Blanco staged a revolt on this Cuban slave ship in 1839. John Quincy Adams defended the captives from this ship, including Joseph Cinqué, in their successful freedom suit with British support.
ANSWER: La Amistad
[10h] Five years after the Amistad revolt, the abolitionist British consul in Cuba was convicted of conspiracy during this event. This period of repression followed Fermina and Carlota’s Conspiracy of La Escalera.
ANSWER: Year of the Lash [or Año del Cuero]
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