LEADER 04195nam 22006615 450 001 9910153100403321 005 20200930191220.0 010 $a1-349-94854-3 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-94854-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000960265 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-94854-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4747009 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000960265 100 $a20161122d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFree Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War /$fby Joseph Kaifala 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XVI, 345 p. 4 illus.) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5773 311 $a1-349-94853-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Discovery of Sierra Leone -- 2. The Ethnic Makeover -- 3. Granville Sharp?s Fight to Free the Slaves- 4. Free Slaves in Freetown -- 5. War & Peace in Freetown -- 6. The Amistad Saga -- 7. The Hut Tax War -- 8. Post-Colonial Political Fiasco -- 9. RUF Invasion and the First NPRC Military Coup -- 10. Second NPRC Military Coup and Elections Before Peace -- 11. The AFRC Military Coup -- 12. AFRC/RUF Invasion of Freetown and the Lomé Peace Accord -- 13. Flames of Peace. 330 $aThis book is a historical narrative of Sierra Leone from the mid-fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves and toward its political independence and civil war. In 1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). The country later became a hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Sierra Leone was chosen as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, African-Americans who fought with the British during the American Revolution, the Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, and Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery laws. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war. This book is a historical narrative covering these periods in Sierra Leonean history. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5773 606 $aAfrica?History 606 $aImperialism 606 $aLabor?History 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aAfrica?Politics and government 606 $aAfrican History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/714000 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/722000 606 $aLabor History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/725000 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 606 $aAfrican Politics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911090 607 $aSierra Leone$xHistory 607 $aSierra Leone$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aAfrica?History. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aLabor?History. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aAfrica?Politics and government. 615 14$aAfrican History. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aLabor History. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 676 $a960 700 $aKaifala$b Joseph$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0994035 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153100403321 996 $aFree Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War$92276588 997 $aUNINA