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'De war done done' (said when Bureh was captured by the British) The British were well aware of Bai Bureh's folk hero status he had cultivated during the war, which made them less inclined to hang him. It was too much of a risk to take: by killing Bai Bureh they would have likely created a martyr. Such actions would have led to a battle cry for freedom against British rule in Sierra Leone and if the British were defeated there, then that would have emboldened their subjects in other regions to rebel, threatening their Imperial rule in West Africa.
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)