ISBN:
9781108562423
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 293 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
African identities: past and present
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Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
306.3/62096609034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1787-1884
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Geschichte 1810-1860
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Freedmen History 19th century
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Forced migration History 19th century
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Ethnicity History 19th century
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Abolitionismus
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Rückwanderung
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Kolonie
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Africa, West History To 1884
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Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone
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Kolonie
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Abolitionismus
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Geschichte 1810-1860
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Sierra Leone
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Abolitionismus
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Rückwanderung
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Geschichte 1787-1884
Abstract:
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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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
DOI:
10.1017/9781108562423
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108562423
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