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Title:1787-1887-1987: Reflections on a Sierra Leone Bicentenary
Author:Fyfe, ChristopherISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:57
Issue:4
Pages:411-421
Language:English
Geographic term:Sierra Leone
Subjects:Krio
history
1700-1799
1800-1899
1900-1999
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159891
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1987-057-00-000023
Abstract:1787 marks a decisive break in the continuity of Sierra Leone history: during the succeeding twenty years three successive settler communities of African descent arrived - the 1787 settlers (the so-called 'Black Poor') from England, in 1792 the settlers from Nova Scotia, and in 1800 the Jamaica Maroons. Europeans usurped political sovereignty over the occupied territory, and in 1808 it came under the British Crown. For the next half century and more, a steady stream of liberated Africans were brought in and settled in what had become the Colony of Sierra Leone. Thus the first hundred years saw the establishment of the Krio community. Since the proclamation, in 1896, of a British Protectorate over the territory adjoining the Colony, the strategy of colonial rule was to keep the country divided: white was divided from black, Colony from Protectorate, tribe from tribe, and chiefdom from chiefdom. Political independence brought no structural change. Although the Krio people remained marginalized, the new elite took on many symbolic forms and beliefs of Krio culture, and Krio became a national language. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French.
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