Becoming african: Identity formation among liberated slaves in nineteenth-century sierra leone1

Slavery and Abolition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-21

  Northrup, David ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 85044794556     PISSN: 0144039X     EISSN: 17439523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01440390500499794     Document Type: Article

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