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Title: | The Return of Brazilian Freedman to West Africa in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
Author: | Ralston, Richard D. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 577-593 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | colonists freedmen History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/483908 |
Abstract: | There is a copious body of literature on the modest success of the colonization schemes in the 18th and 19th centuries which culminated in the founding of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Much less well-known and considerably less well-documented is the movement of thousands of Brazilian blacks to resettle in West Africa. The resettlement of the Brazilian ex-slaves and their descendants was a stream of settlement which began in the 18th century, extended throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, and was dispersed over thousands of square miles of African territory, from the Gold Coast to Angola. Interesting as a subject of study is that this repatriation took place at the volition of the freedmen, subsequent to their self-initiated emancipation, and at great personal cost for subsidization of transportation to West Africa and for expenses incident to settling and building new homes there. Ref., map. |