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Title: | Public Opinion and Colonial Policy in Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone |
Author: | Deveneaux, Gustav K. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 45-67 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sierra Leone Great Britain |
Subjects: | Krio anticolonialism public opinion colonialism History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217390 |
Abstract: | The group of liberated Africans called Creoles living in the Colony of Sierra Leone provides a rare, perhaps unique, example of a people who protested, resisted, and manipulated the colonial system with some degree of success in the nineteenth century. Their primary weapon was an appeal to public opinion. The article describes how the Creole leaders, realising that public opinion could achieve maximum effect if it were aimed at the governor and his council, used the press to voice their protests. Notes. |