Poet
S.A.C.
printed 1888
Initials only, as most Freetown newspaper poets signed in the 1880s. The poem answered those who looked down on Black Sierra Leoneans with pride.
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“That Negroes we are”
Sierra Leone Weekly News, 17 November 1888
That Negroes we are, we are proud to maintain Ashamed of complexion! unless if insane… […]
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