Research Catalog

Title

Abolition in Sierra Leone : re-building lives and identities in nineteenth-century West Africa / Richard Peter Anderson.

Author

Anderson, Richard (Richard Peter)

Publication

• Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The history of Sierra Leone is one of departures and arrivals. Between 1581 and 1867, European slave traders carried away an estimated 389,000 Africans from the regions in and around what now constitutes the country of Sierra Leone. In the late eighteenth century, as Britain began contemplating the legal abolition of the slave trade, Sierra Leone became the destination for a reverse migration of enslaved Africans and their descendants who sought to return from the Americas. Between 1787 and 1800 more than two thousand formerly enslaved men, women, and children sailed from Britain, Nova Scotia, and Jamaica to populate a nascent colony financed by British abolitionists and like-minded businessmen. On the coast of West Africa these three waves of colonists hoped to create what abolitionist Granville Sharp called a "province of freedom.""--

Series Statement

African identities: past and present

Uniform Title

African identities: past and present.

Subject

• To 1899
• Freed persons > Africa, West > History > 19th century
• Forced migration > Africa, West > History > 19th century
• Ethnicity > Africa, West > History > 19th century
• Ethnicity
• Forced migration
• Freed persons
• Africa, West > History > To 1884
• West Africa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Sierra Leone: African Colony, African Diaspora -- Liberated African Origins and the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade -- Their Own Middle Passage: Voyages to Sierra Leone -- "Particulars of Disposal:" Life and Labor after "Liberation" -- Liberated African Nations: Ethnogenesis in an African Diaspora -- Kings and Companies: Ethnicity and Community Leadership -- Religion, Return, and the Making of the Aku -- The Cobolo War: Islam, Identity, and Resistance -- Conclusion. Retention or Renaissance? Krio Descendants and Ethnic Identity.

Call Number

Sc E 21-1080

ISBN

• 9781108473545
• 1108473547

LCCN

2019038219

OCLC

1117320015

Author

Anderson, Richard (Richard Peter), author.

Title

Abolition in Sierra Leone : re-building lives and identities in nineteenth-century West Africa / Richard Peter Anderson.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African identities: past and present

African identities: past and present.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER.

Chronological Term

To 1899

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-1080