Book(print)2019

Abolition and the transformation of Atlantic commerce in southern Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1860s

In: The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Misevich, Philip

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Abstract

Southern Sierra Leone and the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries -- The origins of captives leaving southern Sierra Leone in the nineteenth century -- The provisions trade in the era of abolition, 1787-1856 -- Commercial transitions, Islam, and domestic slavery and slave trading, 1830s to 1860s -- Colonialism and slavery, 1790s to 1860s -- Epilogue: Transatlantic slavery and colonialism on Freetown's frontier.

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