“Creole Saga”: the Gambia’s liberated African community in the 19th century: the stories of J. A. B. Horton, G. C. Nicol, J. R. Maxwell, and J. D. Richards

This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography features the biographies of four important figures of the Gambia’s liberated African community: James Africanus B. Horton, George Croley Nicol, Joseph Renner Maxwell, and Joseph Davidson Richards. The featured biographies below are excerpted from Dr. Asi Florence Mahoney’s book entitled “Creole Saga”: The Gambia’s Liberated African Community of the Nineteenth Century (2006, 2nd edition 2017). [1 Dr. Mahoney (née Peters) is one of the earliest Gambian researchers of repute on written 19th century Gambian history. She was born in Bathurst (Banjul), the Gambia, in 1936 of Sierra Leonean parents who were both descendants of liberated Africans.]