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

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series African identities: past and present African identities: past and present. 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 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.""-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject 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. SUBJECT Africa, West -- History -- To 1884. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001704 Subject West Africa. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019038220 ISBN 9781108562423 1108562426

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