The Lucy Memorial Freed Slaves’ Home: The Sudan United Mission and the British Colonial Government in Partnership

Fieldwork has been combined with archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Nigeria to explicate the manner in which the Sudan United Mission strove to create a Christian Northern Nigerian identity in order to combat a Muslim Hausa identity. To a...

Virginia A. Salamone is principal of Sacred Heart Elementary School in Hartsdale, New York. She has taught college at the University of Jos, Nigeria, Elizabeth Seton College, Iona College, Mt. St. Vincent College, the College of New Rochelle, and Katherine Gibbs College. She has authored and co-authored a number of articles on Nigeria. Frank A. Salamone is former Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. He has authored or edited more than ten books and over 100 articles; written numerous chapters for edited volumes; has delivered many papers at national and international conferences; and is a member of many professional societies. He has conducted fieldwork in Nigeria, the United States, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, and in many other locations around the world.