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April 22, 2017

Creole Girl, 1858

“Creole” in Sierra Leone refers to the children of liberated Africans in the colony, and by extension all children born there. The Illustrated London News reported that the term was not a reflection of skin color.
The Illustrated London News, 24 April 1858. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

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