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This article is written in Sierra Leonean English and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

How to use information from this website without trying to violate any copyrights?[edit]

A while ago I came across this website, which I found out to be a source that could be used to enhance this Wikipedia article greatly. I was already aware of the serious copyright laws here in Wikipedia and therefore tried to use the text from the website, but while attempting to use the text here in Wikipedia in a way that it could not be considered copyrighted content. All of that contribution on this article was demolished. How can I use information from that website and and use it on Wikipedia without it being considered copyrighted content, or is using any information from that website automatically considered copyrighted, no matter what? If someone who knows about this matter more than I could help me with building this article using that website as source while it's still accessible, it would be more than appreciated. I would merely love to see this become a strong article with lots of information from a credible source. Thank you! Regards, Sullay (Let's talk about it) 00:54, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone help with this issue, for it is a very important one? Regards, Sullay (Let's talk about it) 06:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Prostitutes?[edit]

"Opponents of miscegenation incorrectly labelled the white wives of these black men as prostitutes."

But this is what Anna Maria Falconbridge, a visitor to Sierra Leone, wrote:

I always supposed these people had been transported as convicts, but some conversation I lately had with one of the women, has partly undeceived me: She said, the women were mostly of that description of persons who walk the streets of London, and support themselves by the earnings of prostitution; that men were employed to collect and conduct them to Wapping, where they were intoxicated with liquor, then inveigled on board of ship, and married to Black men, whom they had never seen before; that the morning after she was married, she really did not remember a syllable of what had happened over night, and when informed, was obliged to inquire who was her husband? After this, to the time of their sailing, they were amused and buoyed up by a prodigality of fair promises, and great expectations which awaited them in the country they were going to: "Thus," in her own words, "to the disgrace of my mother country, upwards of one hundred unfortunate women, were seduced from England to practice their iniquities more brutishly in this horrid country.” Good heaven! how the relation of this tale made me shudder;—I questioned its veracity, and enquired of the other women who exactly corroborated what I had heard,; 2.97.225.243 (talk) 13:23, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]