Rice connects us directly to West Africa. Here is the update of a - TopicsExpress



          

Rice connects us directly to West Africa. Here is the update of a digitization project headed by Paul Lovejoy through which the British Library has assisted in bringing the Sierra Leone Public Archives of Fourah Bay College safely into the future and is making them accessible to the world. Remember, Sierra Leone holds the slave fort "Bunce Island" from which Henry Laurens and others brokered the sales of thousands of Africans with rice growing experience to planters in the Lowcountry. It is also where the British took the Black Loyalists (aka the Nova Scotians) to establish a free colony for their help in the American Revolution--and where the British released the Africans held on slave ships caught in the Atlantic after 1807 by the British Navy.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:02:37 +0000

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