375
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

“This na true story of our history”: South Carolina in Sierra Leone's historical memory

References

  • Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York: Ballantine, 2001.
  • Barnes, Kenneth C. Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Benton, Adia, and Kwame Zulu Shabazz. “Find their Level: African American Roots Tourism in Sierra Leone and Ghana.” Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 49, nos. 1–2 (2009): 477–511.
  • Blyden, Nemata. “Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone.” In Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, edited by John W. Pulis, 159–182. New York: Garland, 1999.
  • Blyden, Nemata. West Indians in West Africa, 1808–1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse. Rochester: University of Rochester, 2000.
  • Brooke, James. “Africans See Their Culture Live in U.S. South”, New York Times, October 25, 1987.
  • Brooks, Walter H. “The Silver Bluff Church. A History of Negro Baptist Churches in America.” Washington, DC: Press of R. L. Pendleton, 1910. http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/brooks/summary.html.
  • Byrd, Alexander X. Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
  • Capps, Randy, Kristen McCabe, and Michael Fix. Diverse Streams: African Migration to the United States. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2012.
  • Capps, Randy, Kristen McCabe, and Michael Fix. New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2011.
  • Carrier, Tim. Family Across the Sea. California Newsreel: South Carolina ETV, 1991.
  • Church Missionary Society. Missionary Papers, No. XLVII (Michaelmas, 1827). books.google.com/books?id=uss7AQAAMAAJ.
  • Clifford, Mary Louise. From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists after the American Revolution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.
  • Contee, Clarence G. “The Reverend Edward Jones, Missionary-Educator to Sierra Leone and ‘First’ Afro-American College Graduate 1808? to 1865.” Negro History Bulletin 38, no. 1 (1975): 356–357.
  • Crowder, Michael. “From Amherst to Fourah Bay: Principal Edward Jones.” In Two Hundred Years of Inter-Cultural Evolution and Perspectives for the Future: Bicentenary of Sierra Leone Symposium. Free Town: Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, 1987.
  • Edward Jones. “Amherst College Class of 1826” from the Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1821-1921). Amherst College, 1927. Also can be found at http://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1826.html#jones-e.
  • Extracts from the Correspondence of Mr. John Kizell with Governor Columbine Respecting his Negotiations with the Chiefs in the River Sherbro, and Giving an Account of that River, in Report of the Committee of the African Institution, Volume 6, London, England. GoogleBooks.books.google.com/books?id=IcAEAAAAMAAJ.
  • Falconbridge, Anna Maria. Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793, edited by Christopher Fyfe. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
  • Fields-Black, Edda. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
  • Fyfe, Christopher. A History of Sierra Leone. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1993.
  • Fyfe, Christopher. ‘Our Children Free and Happy’: Letters from Black Settlers in Africa in the 1790's. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
  • Garber, Melbourne. “A Tribute to Thomas Peters ‘Black Moses’ and Founding Father of Freetown.” London: Krio Descendants Union. Accessed January 19, 2013. http://www.kdulondon.org.uk/a-tribute-to-thomas-peters/.
  • Gates, Henry Louis. “Episode 1, The Black Atlantic.” In The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions, THIRTEEN Productions LLC, Inkwell Films, in association with Ark Media, 2014.
  • George, David, and John Rippon. “An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa; Given by Himself in a Conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother Pearce of Birmingham.” Baptist Annual Register 1 (1790–1793): 473–484.
  • Gerzina, Gretchen. Black London: Life before Emancipation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1995.
  • Gilbert, Alan. Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2012.
  • Goffe, Leslie. “Priscilla: The Story of an African slave.” Accessed March 15, 2014. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4460964.stm.
  • Gomez, Michael Angelo. Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
  • Greene, Gael. “David George.” BlackPast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed: An Online Reference Guide to African American History. Accessed January 2, 2014. http://www.blackpast.org/gah/george-david-1742-1810#sthash.IuAbPlww.dpuf.
  • Harris, Neck L. Trust website. “Amelia's Song: A Song Led Them Home.” Accessed March 2, 2014. http://www.harrisnecklandtrust1.xbuild.com/#/amelias-song/4529751671.
  • Harris, Sheldon H. Paul Cuffe: Black America and the African Return. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
  • Hawkins, Hugh. “Edward Jones: First American Negro College Graduate?” School and Society, 89 (1961): 375–378.
  • Hawkins, Hugh. “Edward Jones, Marginal Man.” In Black Apostles at Home and Abroad: Afro-Americans and the Christian Mission from the Revolution to Reconstruction, edited by David W. Willis and Richard Newman, 243–253. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982.
  • “History of Slavery in the United States, South Carolina, Sierra Leone Kinship Campaign.” Part 1. Accessed March 15, 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrO6by8ZOp8.
  • King, Boston. “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his Residence at Kingswood School.” The Methodist Magazine, March–June 1798. http://antislavery.eserver.org/narratives/boston_king/.
  • Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
  • Lowther, Kevin. The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in his African Homeland. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
  • Miller, Floyd John. The Search for a Black Nationality: Black Emigration and Colonization, 1787-1863. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1975.
  • Nash, Gary B. “Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer.” Accessed January 12, 2014. http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/nash.html.
  • “News from Sierra Leone Gullah Heritage Association.” The Sierra Leone Network, May 30, 2006. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SierraLeoneNetwork/message/945?threaded=1&var=1&p=1.
  • Nicol, Davidson. “The Jones Family of Charleston, London and Africa.” In Sierra Leone Studies at Birmingham, edited by Adam Jones, Peter K. Mitchell, and Margaret Peil, 89–90. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1990.
  • Nicol, Davidson. The Life and Times of Edward Jones, unpublished manuscript 1994.
  • Northrup, David. Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965: A Brief History with Documents. New York: St Martins, 2008.
  • Opala, Joseph A. “The Gullah: Rice, Slavery and the Sierra Leone-America connection.” Accessed February 23, 2014. http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/index.htm.
  • Opala, Joseph A. “Priscilla's Homecoming.” Accessed March 12, 2014. http://www.yale.edu/glc/priscilla/opala.htm.
  • Peterson, John. Province of Freedom; A History of Sierra Leone, 1787-1870. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969.
  • Powers, Bernard E. Jr. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
  • Pulis, John W. Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World. Vol. 4 of Crosscurrents in African American History. New York: Garland, 1999.
  • Pybus, Cassandra. “‘The Day of Jubilee is Come’: Isaac Anderson and Rebellion in Sierra Leone.” Paper presented in the Harriet Tubman Seminar, York University, 21 March 2006.
  • Pybus, Cassandra. Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty. Boston: Beacon, 2006.
  • Sarata, Phil. “Sierra Leone: A World Away: Historian Connects African Nation to Gullah Community through a Slave Girl Named Priscilla.” Concord Times (Freetown), 20 November 2008. http://allafrica.com/stories/200811200963.html.
  • Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. New York: Ecco, 2006.
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “In Motion: The African American Migration Experience.” Accessed January 12, 2014. http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations.
  • Seibure, Ibrahim. “Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone-Gullah Heritage Formed in US.” Concord Times, 20 April 2006. http://allafrica.com/stories/200604200440.html.
  • SEM Contributor. “Martin Luther King Traces DNA to Sierra Leone.” 30 September 2010. Sierra Express Media. http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/14317.
  • Sesay, Bhai-Dhawa. “Thomas Peters (ca. 1738-1792) True Founder of Freetown.” Accessed February 12, 2014. http://sierraleonelive.com/sierra-leonean-heroes/thomas-peters-ca-1738-1792-true-founder-of-freetown/.
  • Shepperson, George. “Notes on Negro American Influences on the Emergence of African Nationalism.” The Journal of African History 1, no. 2 (1960): 299–312. doi: 10.1017/S0021853700001869
  • Smith, Adam Christian. “Boston King.” BlackPast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed: An Online Reference Guide to African American History. Accessed March 2, 2014. http://www.blackpast.org/gah/boston-king-c-1760-1802.
  • Thomas, Lamont D. Paul Cuffe: Black Entrepreneur and Pan–Africanist. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
  • Toepke, Alvaro, and Angel Serrano. The Language You Cry In. Spain/Sierra Leone: California Newsreel, 1998.
  • Visit Sierra Leone – Blog. “DNA Tests Bringing African Americans to Sierra Leone.” Tuesday, 29 December 2009. http://blogs.visitsierraleone.org/2009/12/dna-tests-bringing-african-americans-to.html.
  • Wade, Harold, Jr. Black Men of Amherst. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 1976.
  • Washington, Isaiah, written with Lavaille Lavette. A Man From Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life. New York: Center Street/Hachette Book Group, 2011.
  • Williams, Walter L. Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
  • Wilson, Ellen Gibson. The Loyal Blacks. New York: Capricorn, 1976.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.