Children, Education and Empire in Early Sierra Leone: Left in Our Hands

ISBN-13: 9780367589202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Katrina Keefer

Opis

This book offers newly transcribed data and fills a lacuna in the scholarship of early Sierra Leone. It presents a narrative of children as they experienced a set of circumstances which were unique to Abolitionist historiography, and demonstrates how each element of that situation arose.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. The Founding of the Sierra Leone Colony, 1787–1808

2. A New Kind of Protestantism in Sierra Leone

3. The CMS and its Missionaries

4. Initiation Camps, Karanthes and Mission Schools

5. The CMS School Communities 1806–1819

6. The Pupils at the Mission Schools

7. The Children of the CMS

Conclusion: Mission Education and Leadership in Transforming Sierra Leone

Afterword

Bibliography

Appendix A 1809–1816 Compiled Bashia Pupil List

Appendix B 1811–1816 Compiled Canoffee Pupil List

Appendix C 1814–1816 Compiled Yongroo Pomoh Pupil List

Appendix D 1815 Îsles de Los Pupil List

Appendix E 1817–1819 Compiled Leicester Pupil List

Appendix F 1819 Gloucester Town Pupil List

Appendix G 1816 Goree Pupil List

O autorze

Katrina Keefer is Adjunct Professor of History at Trent University, Canada.