Slavery, Abolition And The Transition To Colonialism In Sierra Leone

Slavery, Abolition And The Transition To Colonialism In Sierra Leone. This volume places Sierra Leone within the larger landscape of the greater Atlantic world system in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The essays demonstrate that the meaning of "Sierra Leone" changed over time, initially designating the river only but subsequently a section of the upper Guinea coast and then the British colony after 1808.