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Title

A transformed colony : Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth / by T.J. Alldridge ; with sixty-six illustrations & a map.

Author

Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916

Publication

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Seeley and Co., 1910.

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Additional Authors

• J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.
• Seeley and Co., publisher.
• Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.

Description

xvi, 368 pages, [46] leaves of plates : illustrations, color map; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is

Subjects

• Sierra Leone > Description and travel
• Sierra Leone > Social life and customs
• Indigenous peoples > Sierra Leone
• Freetown (Sierra Leone) > Description and travel
• Great Britain > Colonies > Africa
• Ethnology > Sierra Leone

Note

• "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh."--verso of title page.
• Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh & London."--colophon, foot of page 368.
• Includes index.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. Introductory -- ch. 2. Freetown -- ch. 3. Freetown: A general look around -- ch. 4. Freetown as seen in its streets -- ch. 5. The population of Freetown -- ch. 6. The food supply of Freetown -- ch. 7. The popular trading roads -- ch. 8. The Freetown Municipal Council -- ch. 9. The revolution in trade -- ch. 10. The Princess Christian Mission Hospital -- ch. 11. The mountains and the mountain villages -- ch. 12. The mountain railway -- ch. 13. The Sierra Leone government railway -- ch. 14. From Kissy to Bo -- ch. 15. The halt at Bo -- ch. 16. The government school at Bo -- ch. 17. From Bo to Baiima -- ch. 18. Still in the oil-belt -- ch. 19. Along the road to Pendembu -- ch. 20. Back to the coast by swamp, bush, and forest -- ch. 21. The old chiefs and the new -- ch. 22. Byways in Mendiland -- ch. 23. The Mendi marriage customs -- ch. 24. The Bundu Order, the secret society for women -- ch. 25. The coast and its waterways -- ch. 26. Sherbro (fish) from minnow to tarpon -- ch. 27. The Sherbro churches -- ch. 28. The making of a Bai Sherbro and of a Sokong of Imperri -- ch. 29. Tribal wars that led to the forming of the protectorate -- ch. 30. The need of a protectorate -- ch. 31. From Mr. Garrett's log-book -- ch. 32. Mr. Garrett's log continued: Across the Niger -- ch. 33. Back to Port Lokko -- ch. 34. The oil-palm -- ch. 35. The kola tree -- ch. 36. Conclusion -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 916.64-A (Alldridge, T. Transformed colony)

OCLC

• 4385681
• NYPGR4385681-B

Author

Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916, author.

Title

A transformed colony : Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth / by T.J. Alldridge ; with sixty-six illustrations & a map.

Publisher

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Seeley and Co., 1910.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.64-A (accession no. B429098) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Full text available via HathiTrust (Harvard University copy)

Added Author

J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.

Seeley and Co., publisher.

Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.64-A (Alldridge, T. Transformed colony)

BMH (Alldridge, T. J. Transformed colony)