From Slavery To Freetown

Author : Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476607221

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From Slavery to Freetown by Mary Louise Clifford Pdf

During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were finally offered a new home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia and the Carolinas to their sojourn in wartime New York, their evacuation to Nova Scotia and finally their exodus to Freetown, where they struggled for another decade for not only freedom and dignity but the right to worship as they choose, make an honest living, and govern themselves.

Author : Joseph Kaifala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349948543

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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War by Joseph Kaifala Pdf

This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves, and toward its political independence and civil war. In 1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). Sierra Leone later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, American slaves who supported or fought with the British during the American Revolution. The Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, arrived in 1800. The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war.

Author : John Grace
Publisher : New York : Barnes & Noble Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036096274

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Domestic Slavery in West Africa, with Particular Reference to the Sierra Leone Protectorate, 1896-1927 by John Grace Pdf

Author : Emma Christopher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : 0299316289

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Freedom in White and Black by Emma Christopher Pdf

In the early nineteenth century, both Britain and the United States had passed laws prohibiting further transatlantic slaving. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summer of 1813, near what is now Liberia, a compound of pens full to bursting with sick and anguished captives was guarded by other African slaves. As a British patrol swooped down on the illicit barracoon, the slavers burned the premises to the ground, hoping to destroy evidence. This story can be told because of an exceptional trove of court documents that provides unparalleled insight into one small link in the great, horrific chain of slavery. Emma Christopher follows a trail of evidence across four continents to examine the lives of this barracoon's owners, their workers, and their tragic human merchandise. She reveals how an American, Charles Mason, escaped justice; while Robert Bostock and John McQueen were taken prisoner and exiled to Australia. Later, when they appealed their arrest in court, British agents collected the testimony of five African men--Tamba, Tom Ball, Yarra, Noah, and Sessay--whose words bear witness on behalf of 233 nameless Africans liberated in the 1813 raid. These men, women, and children, who were relocated to Freetown, Sierra Leone, endured lives of "freedom" much harsher than we would like to imagine. From the fragmented facts of these lives, Christopher also sheds fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia and the role of former slaves in combatting the illegal trade.

Author : Richard Peter Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108473545

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Abolition in Sierra Leone by Richard Peter Anderson Pdf

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

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300220469

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Almost Home by Ruma Chopra Pdf

The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy,Suzanne Schwarz
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Freed persons
ISBN : 1592219837

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Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone by Paul E. Lovejoy,Suzanne Schwarz Pdf

This volume places Sierra Leone within the larger landscape of the greater Atlantic world system. The essays demonstrate that the meaning of 'Sierra Leone' changed over time as Freetown became a frontier of the African diaspora. Christianity, migration, the abolition of slave trade and experiments in labour mobilisation through means other than slavery were haphazardly introduced in a context of missed opportunities for the nascent British colony.

Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231526

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Freedom's Debtors by Padraic X. Scanlan Pdf

A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa. At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.

Author : Emma Christopher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299316204

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Freedom in White and Black by Emma Christopher Pdf

A gripping true account of African slaves and white slavers whose fates are seemingly reversed, shedding fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia, and on the role of former slaves in combatting the illegal trade.

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771080170

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Black Loyalists by Ruth Holmes Whithead Pdf

“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674043073

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Abolitionists Abroad by Lamin Sanneh Pdf

In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established themselves in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Thus began an unprecedented movement with critical long-term effects on the evolution of social, religious, and political institutions in modern Africa. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates the story of freed slaves who led efforts to abolish the slave trade by attacking its base operation: the capture and sale of people by African chiefs. Sanneh's protagonists set out to establish in West Africa colonies founded on equal rights and opportunity for personal enterprise, communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Among the most striking of these leaders is the Nigerian Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a recaptured slave who joined a colony in Sierra Leone and subsequently established satellite communities in Nigeria. The ex-slave repatriates brought with them an evangelical Christianity that encouraged individual spirituality--a revolutionary vision in a land where European missionaries had long assumed they could Christianize the whole society by converting chiefs and rulers. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh draws a clear picture of the religious grounding of its conflict with the traditional chieftain authorities. His study recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780552775489

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The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill Pdf

Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of finding her way home again.After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing return odyssey to Africa. Lawrence Hill's epic novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman.

Author : B. Everill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137291813

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Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia by B. Everill Pdf

Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.

Author : Richard Anderson,Henry B. Lovejoy
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469692

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Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 by Richard Anderson,Henry B. Lovejoy Pdf

"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--

Author : Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199782253

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Death Or Liberty by Douglas R. Egerton Pdf

Here, the author offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800.