The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies

John Birchall – October, 2016 4 The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies Volume 5 – number 2 – October 2016 Content 1926 Slave Revolt in Sierra Leone Alfred Arkley 5 The Records of the Births and Deaths Office and the Office of the Registrar-General of Sierra Leone: A Note on the Preservation of Historical. [...] Orlando Patterson points out in his comprehensive review of slavery throughout the world “Slavery is one of the most extreme forms of the relation of domination, approaching the limits of total power from the viewpoint of the master and total powerlessness from the viewpoint of the slave.”9 Domestic slavery in Sierra Leone had a power imbalance in the master slave relationship. [...] Did the master of a slave have the right to recapture the slave, if the slave ran away? On July 1, 1927, the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone quashed the convictions of N’fa Nonko et al. [...] The majority of the masters were Mandingoes.67 The abolition of slavery was a disaster to the Mandingo slave owners in the Karina area. [...] The Society helped the cause of the Protectorate slaves by making their conditions known to the rest of the world.