The Search for Independence
New World Blacks in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 1787-1847
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19002191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monday B Abasiattai (University of Calabar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-116 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193479202300108 |
| OpenAlex | W2059541724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 7 |
In both Britain and the United States, slaves were chattels possessing no rights whatever in law or custom, and instances of gross maltreatment were not uncommon (Fyfe, 1962, p. 13). The so-called free Blacks in both countries were only nominally free. Not surprisingly, some White and persons saw emigration of Blacks to Africa as a way out of their oppression in the New World. Aided by some British philanthropists, notably Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, and Thomas Clarkson, and by the British government, about 400 Blacks recently freed by British law and nicknamed the Black Poor emigrated from Britain to Sierra Leone in April 1787. In January 1792 and September 1800, about 1,190 Nova Scotian Blacks and about 550 Maroons, respectively, emigrated from Canada to Sierra Leone, aided by the Sierra Leone Company, which some British philanthropists and merchants had incorporated in June 1791 to trade with, and administer, Sierra Leone (Akpan, 1978, p. 93).' Similarly in 1822, about 80 African Americans settled in Liberia under the patronage of the American Colonization Society (ACS) and the U.S. government. By 1900 over 16,000 African Americans and about 400 Afro-West Indians had settled in Liberia, aided largely by the ACS. Additionally, between 1822 and 1862, about 5,500 recaptured Africans, mostly people from the Congo region who were seized from slavers in the Atlantic waters by American
Economic history · Emigration · Ethnology · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Independence (probability theory) · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sierra leone · White (mutation) · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Race Consciousness
A purer form of government”
Destiny seems to point me to that country’
British West Africa or ‘The United States of Africa’? Imperial pressures on the transatlantic anti-slavery movement, 1839–1842
Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony
Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |