Augustus Merriman-Labor

Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman-Labor, who later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, was born on 28 November 1877 in Freetown. Entrusted to his maternal grandfather when his mother became a school headmistress in Gambia, he worked as a clerk in the colonial secretariat and in 1898 anonymously published a pamphlet on the Hut Tax War. Having arrived in London in 1904, he entered Lincoln's Inn, from which he was expelled for going into trade, wrote for the Sierra Leone Weekly News and taught catechism in an orphanage. Ruined, he worked in a munitions factory and died in 1919.

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• EssayBritons Through Negro SpectaclesAugustus Merriman-Labor · 1909Literature