(AFRICA SIERRA LEONE) WILBERFORCE DANIEL F Sherbro and the

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IMPLICATED IN CANNIBALISM (AFRICA--SIERRA LEONE.) WILBERFORCE, DANIEL F. Sherbro and the Sherbros. A Native African's Account of His Country and His People. Portrait frontispiece. 37 pages. Small 8vo, original printed tan wrappers. Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren, 1886

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first edition of a very unusual autobiographical narrative. Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce (1856-1927), a native African was born in Bonthe, Sherbro. He was named for both the noted missionary that baptized him and the famous English abolitionist. He became Paramount chief of the Imperi, the first Christian pastor to become a chief. He was educated in the United States but returned to Sierra Leone to a post at Clark Theological School in Shenge. As a chief Wilberforce became quite wealthy and managed to amass quite a bit of land. He survived a number of political upheavals through his connections with the British colonial office, and all was well until 1911 when Wilberforce and other chiefs were implicated in a series of grisly cannibalistic murders connected to a secret society. Wilberforce himself was arrested, and though not condemned, he was sent into exile. However, once more, through powerful British friends he was allowed to return to Sherbro where he died in 1927.