On a humid March morning this year, police officers came to the scenic Hill Station neighbourhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

but the scars of the slave trade remain deeply ingrained in Sierra Leone’s history. In 1787, British abolitionists established Freetown as a settlement for freed slaves. The city was a beacon of hope ...

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Sierra Leone’s capital city ... to announce someone’s death, and more. Its history dates back to the slave trade when it served as a means of communication and alerted those far away in ...

Canary and Cape Verde Islands to Sierra Leone and returned via the West Indies. Over the next 15-years she made several trips to the coast of Africa, protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships.

Decades after independence, colonial-era laws have created a mass-incarceration crisis in Sierra Leone as poor citizens are ...

History of Republic Liberia ... Liberia for being a place to dump freed slaves, so confusing the issue of emancipation. Like the elite of Sierra Leone, the Liberians of Monrovia focussed more ...

Sierra Leone is a poor country in western Africa. A former British colony, it is significant in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, serving as both a departure point for captive people and a ...

History of Republic Liberia ... Liberia for being a place to dump freed slaves, so confusing the issue of emancipation. Like the elite of Sierra Leone, the Liberians of Monrovia focussed more ...

after it was taken over by the Sierra Leone Company in 1791. The slave trade itself is also seen to have stimulated commercial agriculture in West Africa, to supply provisions for slave ships in the ...