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Before the war, after the war: preserving history in Sierra Leone (EAP284)

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[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Documents which can barely be equalled in importance for telling the Atlantic slavery story. Foremost are the Liberated African Letter Books, which record the slave ships captured by…[...]

Nineteenth century documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives (EAP443)

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[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Valuable documents of immense importance for research on the transatlantic slave trade and its repercussions. The original Registers of Liberated Africans who were taken off slave ships by…[...]