Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier

The early part of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of West Africa’s Sierra Leone settlement as an important center for the expanding trade economy. A surprising number of Sierra Leonean traders were Krio women, whose crosscultural background helped them to mediate the contact between European and African markets.In Sierra Leone's Settler Women Traders, E. Frances White has unearthed the fascinating social and economic history of these women traders from the late eighteenth to th...