Research Catalog

Title

A preface to modern Nigeria : the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830-1890 / by Jean Herskovits Kopytoff.

Author

Herskovits, Jean.

Publication

Madison : Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1965.

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Details

Description

x, 402 pages : maps (some folded); 25 cm

Subject

• Church Missionary Society
• Geschichte 1830-1890
• Yoruba (African people)
• Nigeria
• immigrants
• Sierra Leoneans
• 15.80 history of Africa
• British colonies
• Colonization
• Immigranten
• Joruba (volk)
• Nigeria > History
• Sierra Leone > History
• Africa, West > Colonization
• Great Britain > Colonies > Africa
• Africa
• West Africa
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [372]-383.

Contents

The West African setting -- The Sierra Leone experience and the beginnings of the eastward migration -- The return to Yoruba country : Lagos, Badagry, Abeokuta -- The imposition of British consular control in Lagos -- Sierra Leonians and trade -- Sierra Leonians in administration, politics, and missions -- The struggle for power in the hinterland of Lagos Colony -- Emigrants in changing trade relations -- Emigrants in the Lagos hinterland : the dilemma of involvement -- The emigrants under changing administrations : voices of political protest -- Christianity and the challenge of allegiances -- Changing emigrant roles through the Nineteenth Century -- Appendix A: Biographical sketches of Sierra Leonians and their descendants -- Appendix B: Signers of Petition of Liberated Africans in Freetown, requesting British support for their emigration to Badagry -- Appendix C: Statistics of Lagos grammar school, July, 1860 -- Appendix D: Periodicals for the year 1888 in the library of John Augustus Otonba Payne.

LCCN

65024184

OCLC

• ocm14145028
• 14145028
• SCSB-144591

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library