In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, the convergence of various streams of transatlantic migration on Sierra Leone resulted in the intermixing of people with different life experiences of enslavement and freedom in Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America.
In this episode, Adrian Labor discusses the Fellowship of the Free; Akindele Decker on the legacy of his grandfather renowned Sierra Leonean linguist, poet, and journalist Thomas Alexander Leighton Decker OBE, highlights the significance of language in the context of our conversations. Presented by Natacha Leopold. Written and Produced by Barbara Morgan.
[Intro music: LEOA academic male voice choir, lyrics by Samuel Koffie-Williams]
[Image: (Cover page) Origin of Wesleyan Methodism in Sierra Leone and History of its missions, by Rev Charles Marke]
[Outro music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (c) 2006, Atlantic Records]
(00:00) Opening
(01:47) A community not of loyalists or patriots but freedom. Barbara had some mouse clicks going which may be annoying to some listeners and we apologize for this.
(07:23) Mad Methodists
(09:40) Akindele Decker on challenging the language with which we approach history
(13:50) Church leaders from Birch Town Nova Scotia, Resistance and the Sierra Leone Company
(20:38) Wrap up and goodbyes
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