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[^0]:    6 Green, 2012, pp. 10, 12-13, 18, 28, 34, 53, 56-57, 61, 62, 96-97, 103, 05, 48, 74, 78-79, 226, 34, 72-73, 76. Green demarcates the sixteenth century as the beginning of modernity, in which a new period of trans-national ideologies, such as racial hierarchies, impacted ongoing processes of creolizattion.  
de Los, because they 'went to an Island of the Sapies, [...] to see if they could take any of them' captive, which Hawkins' men did by 'burning and spoiling their townes' (Williamson, 1970, pp. 16-17). Though this account is a slaving voyage, it is an invaluable primary source for the political, social and cultural transformation already in progress in the islands off Sierra Leone's coast.