Lexicographical Neighbors of Sasswood
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Literary usage of Sasswood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Story Sketches: Folk-lore from Africa by Alexander Priestley Camphor (1909)
"... town have just announced that a number of persons are to undergo trials by
fire, smoke, and sasswood to-day. The people from several of the neighboring ..."
2. A Lone Woman in Africa: Six Years on the Kroo Coast by Agnes McAllister (1896)
"sasswood PALAVER. Death of the Two Brothers.—The " Quee."—A Woman Endures the Test.
... "We Will Give Everybody sasswood."—"Let's Give Them Some Water. ..."
3. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1841)
"... to give up their barbarous customs of trial by sasswood, &c., and to abandon
the Slave Trade—while their title is secured to their homes and their lands ..."
4. Missionary Review of the World (1917)
"The "sasswood Test" ' I *HE depths of heathenism with which ... He found the
surrounding country being depopulated from what is known as the "sasswood test. ..."
5. Sierra Leone; Its People, Products, and Secret Societies: A Journey by Canoe by H. Osman Newland (1916)
"One ordeal some of the tribes favour for testing adultery is to force the accused
to drink a " medicine " made from the leaves of the cotton, " sasswood ..."
6. The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa by William Taylor (1898)
"Then the executioner arrived with mortar, pots, water, and the sasswood. A small
drum was placed before the prisoner, who tapped it to signify that he was ..."
7. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1840)
"AH misfortunes come from him < he presides over all the sasswood palavers, those
who die under such an ordeal belong to him, and their bodies are forbidden ..."
8. The Lower Niger and Its Tribes by Arthur Glyn Leonard (1906)
"... and that of sasswood, practised by the interior Ibo. As far as the water test
is concerned, it is simple, yet all the more revolting in its brutality. ..."
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