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The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 586, June 2022, Pages 763–793, 2022
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This article highlights narratives of enslavement held in the
Church Missionary Society and Metho... more This article highlights narratives of enslavement held in the
Church Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society
archives for the Sierra Leone, Yoruba, and Gambia missions
in the nineteenth century. Its particular focus is on
testimonies of Africans who experienced enslavement in
Africa and were subsequently sold to Europeans on the
coast and embarked on trans-Atlantic slave vessels. These
documents form part of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC)-funded SHADD: Studies in the
History of the African Diaspora – Documents project, a
digital publication of the Harriet Tubman Institute for
Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University
(http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/publications/shadd/). This article
catalogues both the narratives uncovered to date – among
the longest unpublished accounts of enslavement in Africa –
and research strategies for uncovering more. It concludes
with an appendix indexing digitized and transcribed
documents available on the SHADD database as research
and teaching resources.
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Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 e... more Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls and possibilities associated with using the Registers for Liberated Africans as sources for historical analysis of the slave trade. The article explains the relationship of multiple copies of the registers to each other, demonstrates the link between the African names they contain and ethnolinguistic identities, argues for crowd-sourcing – drawing on the knowledge of the diasporic public and not just scholars – and, finally, shows the importance of such an approach for pre-colonial African history.Entre 1808 et 1862, les officiers de la Marine Britannique libérèrent environ 175,000 esclaves africains des négriers transatlantiques. Ils furent amenés par la suite à Freetown, à la Havane, et à d’autres ports où leurs noms et des informations personnelles furent inscrits dans les régistres relies. En se servant des données sur plus de 92,000 de ces Africains libérés, cet article s’interroge sur la possibilité d’utiliser les Registers for Liberated Africans comme sources d’analyse historique de la traite des esclaves. La relation entre les régistres différents mentionnant les mêmes individus est examinée, ainsi que les liens possibles entre noms africains et identités ethnolinguistiques. En proposant comme méthode d’analyse le “crowd-sourcing,” à savoir, l’appel aux connaissances des publiques diasporiques au lieu de se limiter au savoir des experts, l’étude montre le besoin d’une telle approche dans l’étude de l’histoire de l’Afrique précoloniale.
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African Studies Review, 2019
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Articles by Richard P Anderson
Church Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society
archives for the Sierra Leone, Yoruba, and Gambia missions
in the nineteenth century. Its particular focus is on
testimonies of Africans who experienced enslavement in
Africa and were subsequently sold to Europeans on the
coast and embarked on trans-Atlantic slave vessels. These
documents form part of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC)-funded SHADD: Studies in the
History of the African Diaspora – Documents project, a
digital publication of the Harriet Tubman Institute for
Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University
(http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/publications/shadd/). This article
catalogues both the narratives uncovered to date – among
the longest unpublished accounts of enslavement in Africa –
and research strategies for uncovering more. It concludes
with an appendix indexing digitized and transcribed
documents available on the SHADD database as research
and teaching resources.
Book Reviews by Richard P Anderson
Church Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society
archives for the Sierra Leone, Yoruba, and Gambia missions
in the nineteenth century. Its particular focus is on
testimonies of Africans who experienced enslavement in
Africa and were subsequently sold to Europeans on the
coast and embarked on trans-Atlantic slave vessels. These
documents form part of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC)-funded SHADD: Studies in the
History of the African Diaspora – Documents project, a
digital publication of the Harriet Tubman Institute for
Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University
(http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/publications/shadd/). This article
catalogues both the narratives uncovered to date – among
the longest unpublished accounts of enslavement in Africa –
and research strategies for uncovering more. It concludes
with an appendix indexing digitized and transcribed
documents available on the SHADD database as research
and teaching resources.