Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

ISBN-13: 9781108461870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 308 str.

Richard Peter Anderson

Opis

A history of colonial Africa and of the African diaspora examining the experiences and identities of 'liberated' Africans in Sierra Leone.

Recenzje

'Abolition in Sierra Leone is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of identity and community formation among Africans who disembarked in Sierra Leone, a British colony, between 1808 and 1863, following the end of the slave trade … Anderson uses the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, court records, and the Liberated African registers from Sierra Leone's archives to explore the history of the trauma of enslavement and the brutality of the Middle Passage … Although their welcome was far from warm, the narratives from the registers demonstrate that this new wave of involuntary migrants contributed to a vibrant and evolving set of African identities that remade the colony of Sierra Leone … Highly recommended.' C. Higgs, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction. Sierra Leone: African colony, African diaspora; 1. Liberated African origins and the nineteenth century slave trade; 2. Their own middle passage: voyages to Sierra Leone; 3. 'Particulars of disposal': life and labor after 'liberation'; 4. Liberated African nations: ethnogenesis in an African diaspora; 5. Kings and companies: ethnicity and community leadership; 6. Religion, return, and the making of the Aku; 7. The Cobolo War: Islam, identity, and resistance; Conclusion. Retention or renaissance? Krio descendants and ethnic identity; Appendices. A. 'Nations' of children in CMS school rosters by probable coastline of embarkation, 1816–1824; B. 1848 Sierra Leone census; C. Koelle's Aku informants; D. Liberated African memorials in Freetown churches; Select bibliography; Index.