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Author:   Richard Peter Anderson (University of Aberdeen)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781108473545

ISBN 10:   1108473547
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   30 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Sierra Leone: African colony, African diaspora; 1. Liberated African origins and the nineteenth century slave trade; 2. Their own middle passage: voyages to Sierra Leone; 3. 'Particulars of disposal': life and labor after 'liberation'; 4. Liberated African nations: ethnogenesis in an African diaspora; 5. Kings and companies: ethnicity and community leadership; 6. Religion, return, and the making of the Aku; 7. The Cobolo War: Islam, identity, and resistance; Conclusion. Retention or renaissance? Krio descendants and ethnic identity; Appendices. A. 'Nations' of children in CMS school rosters by probable coastline of embarkation, 1816–1824; B. 1848 Sierra Leone census; C. Koelle's Aku informants; D. Liberated African memorials in Freetown churches; Select bibliography; Index.

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'In this captivating volume, Richard Peter Anderson, tells a story of despair and hope. Centering the narrative around the experiences of Liberated Africans in the British colony of Sierra Leone, Anderson masterfully brings his subjects of study back from oblivion, in what it is by all means a thoroughly researched and wonderfully written text.' Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds 'A welcome addition to a growing scholarship on Sierra Leone and the fate of Liberated Africans, whose lives were shaped by displacement, uprooting, and exploitation. Engaging in debates on colonialism, imperialism, and slavery afterlives, it is a must read for scholars working on slavery and the Atlantic World.' Mariana P. Candido, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 'This work will quickly become the standard secondary source on the origins, experiences, and identities of the nearly 100,000 recaptive Africans removed from slave ships and barracoons and then taken into Sierra Leone in the first half of the nineteenth century.' David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta 'Richard Peter Anderson's masterful study of ethnicity and ethnogenesis among the recaptives of Sierra Leone is not only an original study of liberated Africans, but a major contribution to our understanding of the fluid nature of identities.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto 'Meticulously researched and clearly written, this compelling book reconstructs the origins, experiences, and accomplishments of the approximately 100,000 Africans who were enslaved in the nineteenth century and liberated in Freetown, Sierra Leone as part of the project of abolition. The work shows how through their interactions with one another, missionaries, and British colonial officials the members of this large, diverse, and unusually well documented diaspora resilient forged new communities of belonging in an alien environment where they were granted only limited freedom. It yields rich new insights into the meanings of ethnicity, formation of new identities, and making of the African diaspora on the continent and around the Atlantic. A blend of macro - and micro - history, the text will become a classic.' Kristin Mann, Emory University, Atlanta 'In this captivating volume, Richard Peter Anderson, tells a story of despair and hope. Centering the narrative around the experiences of Liberated Africans in the British colony of Sierra Leone, Anderson masterfully brings his subjects of study back from oblivion, in what it is by all means a thoroughly researched and wonderfully written text.' Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds 'A welcome addition to a growing scholarship on Sierra Leone and the fate of Liberated Africans, whose lives were shaped by displacement, uprooting, and exploitation. Engaging in debates on colonialism, imperialism, and slavery afterlives, it is a must read for scholars working on slavery and the Atlantic World.' Mariana P. Candido, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 'This work will quickly become the standard secondary source on the origins, experiences, and identities of the nearly 100,000 recaptive Africans removed from slave ships and barracoons and then taken into Sierra Leone in the first half of the nineteenth century.' David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta 'Richard Peter Anderson's masterful study of ethnicity and ethnogenesis among the recaptives of Sierra Leone is not only an original study of liberated Africans, but a major contribution to our understanding of the fluid nature of identities.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto 'Meticulously researched and clearly written, this compelling book reconstructs the origins, experiences, and accomplishments of the approximately 100,000 Africans who were enslaved in the nineteenth century and liberated in Freetown, Sierra Leone as part of the project of abolition. The work shows how through their interactions with one another, missionaries, and British colonial officials the members of this large, diverse, and unusually well documented diaspora resilient forged new communities of belonging in an alien environment where they were granted only limited freedom. It yields rich new insights into the meanings of ethnicity, formation of new identities, and making of the African diaspora on the continent and around the Atlantic. A blend of macro - and micro - history, the text will become a classic.' Kristin Mann, Emory University, Atlanta

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Richard Peter Anderson is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Exeter. He has published in journals including Slavery & Abolition, African Economic History, and History in Africa. He is co-editor of Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 (forthcoming) with Henry Lovejoy.

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