West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880 - The African Diaspora in Reverse

A history of the West Indians who migrated to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery in 1807.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Black Employment and British Colonial Policy, 1796-1830
2. West Indians in Sierra Leone
3. British Colonial Policy: Sierra Leone and West Indies
4. West Indians in Office
5. West Indians as Outsiders: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the 1850s and 1860s
6. The Case of Alexander Fitzjames
7. William Rainy, the Press, and the End of West Indian Influence?
8. Epilogue and Conclusion

Notes
Histiographical Essay
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nemata Blyden

Product details

• Authors: Nemata Blyden
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2000
• EAN: 9781580460460
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-046-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous