Adrian Labor, Barbara Morgan

Our Ancestors in the Fellowship of the Free (eBook, ePUB)

Our Ancestors in the Fellowship of the Free Their Last Christmas in Nova Scotia as Free People, their Last Treaty as a Free community in Jamaica and their return journeys and hopes in Sierra Leone, Africa.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From oral and literature accounts, and retold stories, of a family's ancestral journey as far back as the authors could trace, it became clear that these oral stories in diaspora communities complement the recorded history of their ancestors and those accounts from several colonizers they encountered. The oral stories emphasized being free people pursuing self-determination and navigating a world reshaped by warring empires and growing forms of colonization since the 15th century.

This family's stories are parts of those from the early communities of: i) free people in Africa, the Iberian peninsula, and Jamaica, ii) indentured communities who seized the first opportunity to pursue self-determination, and iii) freed people from the 18th century Atlantic slave trade. Collectively, they stood as a lighthouse for freedom across several generations in early West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cape Verde Island), Angola, Jamaica, British American colony, Early Canada, and Britain. In Freetown, the family's ancestral history in the last 200 years extended to empowering themselves and others in parts of Sierra Leone and beyond.

This edition attempts to employ indigenous written sources that are now giving credence to oral narratives from within communities we are connected to around the world. One such example of our current view is that our ancestors, who were among those who sailed away from New York to Nova Scotia, Canada, began free of any obligation to British America and the newly independent America. The legendary Thomas Peters from this Nova Scotian community traveled across to Britain in early Canada, representing the interest of his free community to return to Africa. That community was not prepared to subjugate itself to yet another evolving colony in early Canada. Their ultimate return to Africa and reception by Naimbana II, Obai of the Temne people of Sierra Leone, and other community leaders was a recognition that the 16 ships of Africans in March 1792, from Nova Scotia were descendants of fellow Africans. Our Ancestors, once settled in Freetown, Sierra Leone, became a beacon in Africa for others in the "Fellowship of the Free" within the era of subjugation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: African Curator
• Seitenzahl: 58
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798989770311
• Artikelnr.: 70097895

Autorenporträt

Adrian Q. Labor extended his interest for everything Sierra Leonean by taking up two new hobbies over time alongside his current profession as a Civil Engineer. His first hobby focused on building an online genealogy of the founding settlers of the city of Freetown. He then followed up with a second one to conduct literature research on the Icons of Sierra Leone who shaped the country's diverse national and rich international history. Through the insights gained, he was drawn to the opportunity to create this illustrated history book series. Out of this labor of love, Adrian began a family tradition to share an article at the end of the year to his extended family in which he recounts historic connections and highlights contributions of paternal and maternal ancestors. His most recent article was about events in the 1790sthat led to the establishment of Freetown. The title was "Last Christmas in Nova Scotia, America and their Hopes of Better and Brighter New Year in Sierra Leone, Africa." His first book, "20 Icons of Sierra Leone Who Shaped History", which he co-authored, remakes historic connections and highlights contributions of national ancestors of all young adults of Sierra Leonean parentage.