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Leaving Nova Scotia: Sierra Leone and the Free Black People, 1792–1800

2020· book-chapter· en· W4285656275 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ruma Chopra

Bibliographic record

VenueEdinburgh University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNova scotiaSierra leoneGeographyContext (archaeology)ColonialismBlack africanEthnologyHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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By examining the successive migrations from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, this chapter contributes to the understanding the nature of movement of African descended peoples in the Atlantic World within the wider context of enslavement. Focusing on the migration of free Black Loyalists (1792) and exiled Jamaican Maroons (1800), the chapter argues that sponsors of the migrations from Nova Scotia viewed the Black Loyalists as potential “civilizers” in colonial West Africa and the Maroons, because of prevailing climatic theory, as unsuited to Nova Scotia and ideally suited to Sierra Leone – a view the Maroons themselves encouraged. Overall, the chapter highlights the delicate balance between forced migration and agency in the Free Black Atlantic world.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.696
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.175 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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