"Our children free and happy": letters from black settlers in Africa in the 1790s
This is a unique group of previously unpublished letters which are held in manuscript form by the British Library, the Library of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the Public Record Office, London. The letters were written by black settlers who had migrated from North America to Sierra Leone....
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Edinburgh Univ. Press
1991
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| Schriftenreihe: | Early black writers series
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| Zusammenfassung: | This is a unique group of previously unpublished letters which are held in manuscript form by the British Library, the Library of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the Public Record Office, London. The letters were written by black settlers who had migrated from North America to Sierra Leone. They record an attempt by self-liberated ex-slaves to obtain political and land rights, which they felt had been unjustly denied them, using their literacy in English as a tool. As the letters reveal, their efforts ended in tragedy for, after delivering a declaration of independence and leading an armed rebellion, two settlers were hanged and others banished from their new homes. Christopher Fyfe's introduction explains the historical background to the period. An important supplementary essay by Professor Charles Jones examines the linguistic significance of the letters, comparing them with native English letters of the period. |
| Beschreibung: | X, 105 S. |
| ISBN: | 0748602704 |
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Contents
Preface
vii
List of Nova
Scoţian
Settlers' Documents
ix
Introduction
1
The Documents
21
Notes on the Documents
67
Appendix: Some grammatical characteristics of the
Sierra Leone letters,
charles jones
79
Selected Bibliography
105
Chrístopher Tyfe
(editor)
'OUR CHILDREN FREE AND HAPPY'
Letters from Black Settlers in Africa in
the 1790s
This is a unique group of previously
unpublished letters which are held in
manuscript form by the British Library,
the Library of the University of Illinois,
Chicago, and the Public Record Office,
London. The letters were written by
black settlers who had migrated from
North America to Sierra Leone. They
record an attempt by self-liberated ex-
slaves to obtain political and land rights,
which they felt had been unjustly denied
them, using their literacy in English as a
tool. As the letters reveal, their efforts
ended in tragedy for, after delivering a
declaration of independence and leading
an armed rebellion, two settlers were
hanged and others banished from their
new homes.
Christopher Fyfe's introduction explains
the historical background to the period.
An important supplementary essay by
Professor Charles Jones examines the
linguistic significance of the letters,
comparing them widi native English
letters of the period.
Christopher Fyfe is Reader in African
History at the University of Edinburgh
and author of the distinguished study,
History of Sierra Leone
(1962).
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
22
George Square, Edinburgh
ISBN
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