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Abolition in Sierra Leone - Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (Paperback)
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Abolition in Sierra Leone - Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (Paperback)
Series: African Identities: Past and Present
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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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