Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Anderson, Richard (1984-....)
Titre(s) : Abolition in Sierra Leone [Texte imprimé] : re-building lives and identities in nineteenth-century West Africa / Richard Peter Anderson
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : African identities : past and present
Lien à la collection : African identities : past and present
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 276-285 and index
"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.""
Sujet(s) : Noirs affranchis -- Afrique occidentale -- 19e siècle
Noirs -- Transfert -- Afrique occidentale -- 19e siècle
Noirs -- Identité collective -- Afrique occidentale -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108473545. - ISBN 1108473547. - ISBN 9781108461870. - ISBN 1108461875. -
ISBN 9781108562423 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46503702h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46503702
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
