Abolition in Sierra Leone
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Abolition in Sierra Leone

Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

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eBook - PDF

Abolition in Sierra Leone

Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

About this book

Tracing the lives and experiences of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone having been taken off slave vessels by the British Navy following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, this study focuses on how people, forcibly removed from their homelands, packed on to slave ships, and settled in Sierra Leone were able to rebuild new lives, communities, and collective identities in an early British colony in West Africa. Their experience illuminates both African and African diaspora history by tracing the evolution of communities forged in the context of forced migration and the missionary encounter in a prototypical post-slavery colonial society. A new approach to the major historical field of British anti-slavery, studied not as a history of legal victories (abolitionism) but of enforcement and lived experience (abolition), Richard Peter Anderson reveals the linkages between emancipation, colonization, and identity formation in the Black Atlantic.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Notes on the Text
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Introduction: Sierra Leone: African Colony, African Diaspora
  13. 1 Liberated African Origins and the Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade
  14. 2 Their Own Middle Passage: Voyages to Sierra Leone
  15. 3 ''Particulars of disposal'': Life and Labor after ''Liberation''
  16. 4 Liberated African Nations: Ethnogenesis in an African Diaspora
  17. 5 Kings and Companies: Ethnicity and Community Leadership
  18. 6 Religion, Return, and the Making of the Aku
  19. 7 The Cobolo War: Islam, Identity, and Resistance
  20. Conclusion: Retention or Renaissance? Krio Descendants and Ethnic Identity
  21. Appendices
  22. Select Bibliography
  23. Index