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  • 37 - Experiencing Fear and Despair

  • from Part Seven - Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 421-436

  • Summary

    Alimaamy Dalu Mohammedu Dumbuya (Dalu Modu) was a Muslim headman and trader expelled from Freetown in November or December 1806. Three years later, he was interrogated by British officials at Freetown about the circumstances of his expulsion. The interview shows his understanding of servitude within the settlement and provides information about slave trading and selling within a colony formed originally as the province of freedom. For Dala Modu, there were certain issues that dominated his testimony. One was the difference between what he perceived as legally acceptable behavior for a European or a settler within the settlement and that permitted for Africans who lived alongside the settlement. Thomas Ludlam, who had preceded Governor Thomas Perronet Thompson as governor of the colony, was never brought to trial, and from his center at Lungi, Dala Modu continued to play a prominent role in the colony's commerce until his death in 1841.