ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 

The research for this essay was done while I was
teaching History for the Peace Corps at the Sierra
Leone Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra Leone
(1962-1963).  I would like to thank A. K. Hyde,
Issa Sheriff, Joseph Koroma, Moses Sesay, Robert
Bangura, and Louis Flower for helping me.  Also
I would like to thank all the people I interviewed
for their cooperation.  The judgments and mistakes
in the essay are mine.