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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Sierra Leone, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

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An eighteenth-century map, several illustrations by Europeans of Africans from Sierra Leone, and two eighteenth-century narratives depicting Sierra Leone natives through the eyes of two British physicians who describe the peoples they encounter and who advocate for the abolition of slavery.

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National Humanities Center

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