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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94854-3

ISBN: 978-1-349-94853-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2016

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1Discovery of Sierra Leone

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 1 –8

[This chapter is an account of the discovery of Sierra Leone by the Portuguese adventurer Pedro de Sintra who christened it Sierra Lyao, Lion Mountains. It explores how the country went from a place where navigators sailing the coast of West Africa stopped for drinking water to become the...
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Chapter 2The Ethnic Makeover

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 9 –31

[This chapter discusses the arrival and settlement of 16 of Sierra Leone’s 17 ethnic groups. It covers the customs and traditional practices of the various ethnic groups and their sociopolitical organizations. Many of Sierra Leone’s ethnic groups were influenced by a sixteenth-century marauding...
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Chapter 3Granville Sharp’s Fight to Free the Slaves

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 33 –58

[This chapter focuses on the eighteenth century legal battle between British abolitionist, Granville Sharp and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, to free British slaves. Sharp was determined to end slavery, but the Chief Justice believed that justices are not lawmakers but law finders. Lord Mansfield...
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Chapter 4Free Slaves in Freetown

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 59 –90

[This chapter centers on the Black Poor, free blacks in London after the Somerset ruling, and their repatriation to Sierra Leone. It focuses on the efforts of British abolitionists, including Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, and so on, to end the slave trade,...
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Chapter 5War and Peace in Freetown

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 91 –126

[This chapter is a narrative of conflicts in Freetown after the departure of Governor John Clarkson and attempts by the new governor to impose property rent in contravention of promises to the settlers. This chapter also discusses the Maroons, runaway Jamaican slaves who resisted the British....
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Chapter 6The Amistad Saga

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 127 –165

[This chapter discusses the Amistad case as it went through US federal courts. The case eventually landed at the Supreme Court where the Africans who had mutinied and commandeered the ship were granted freedom and permitted to return to Sierra Leone. The Amistad case is one of the most important...
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Chapter 7The Hut Tax War

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 167 –183

[This chapter covers relations between the Freetown colony and the Sierra Leone Protectorate, which included British areas outside Freetown. The chapter focuses on the Hut Tax War of 1898, when Protectorate chiefs declared war against the British for imposing taxation on their territories....
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Chapter 8Postcolonial Political Fiasco

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 185 –212

[This chapter examines the early years of Sierra Leone after the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai. The sociopolitical course of the country was derailed when Sir Milton died in 1964 and his brother, Sir Albert Margai, was whisked into power. A complicated general election in...
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Chapter 9RUF Invasion and the First NPRC Coup

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 213 –239

[When Corporal Foday Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), launched his rebel incursion into Sierra Leone in March 1991, it was described as banditry in Freetown. The Momoh regime was so politically self-secured that it could not conceive of a rebellion capable of usurping it....
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Chapter 10Second NPRC Military Coup and Elections Before Peace

Kaifala, Joseph

Pages: 241 –257

[This chapter discusses the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) junta and a palace coup that led to Strasser’s overthrow by his own comrades. It focuses on the 1996 elections and the transfer of power to the civilian government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. It highlights President...

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