Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were formerly enslaved people who migrated to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s.
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Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were formerly enslaved people who migrated to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s.
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In Lagos, the Saro people chose Ebute Metta, Olowogbowo, and Yaba as primary settlements.
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The Saro people introduced the crop which was bought from Hausa traders across the River Niger into Southern Nigeria agriculture.
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Early on, the Saro people who had acquired Western education and European cultural mores during their time in Sierra Leone, began to show paternal characteristics in their relationship with native residents of Lagos.
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Some Saro people were clergymen and others were transferred for administrative duty.
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Saro people emerged in the city as pioneers of African commerce as they became suppliers to the residents of the new city.
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Some Saro people workers were retired without pension and suffered much financial deprivation.
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The retired Saro people asked to return home, and some were transported back with the help of colonial funds.
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Unlike the Saro people who were principally from Sierra Leone, the Amaro, who were sometimes called Nago in Brazil, were liberated slaves from Brazil and Cuba.
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