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 ...

which was denied to them under the yoke of slavery,’ wrote the late Akintola J.G. Wyse, a history professor at Fourah Bay College in Freetown in his book The Krio of Sierra Leone. Today, Saudi Arabia ...

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 ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert was left 'sad' on the BBC show as he met with a guest who owned an 'amazing' yet 'awful' item.

The item, picked up for £3 at a house sale over thirty years ago, brought to light the grim history of the ivory and ... my ...

Purchased three decades ago, the bangle brought to light the grim history of human exploitation ... He said: "You know, my ...

“Any war reference, you’d never see any of us in that situation,” McQueen said matter-of-factly. He recalled a Chinese man ...

Philadelphia gunfire has taken grandfathers, brothers, cousins, children. Intergenerational loss reflects the root of ...

Sirleaf, the Harvard University-trained leader, ascended to power in Liberia in 2005, her compatriots celebrated her ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert shared his personal disdain for an item that was purchased for £3 at a house sale three decades ago. Filming at Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff, the BBC daytime series took a ...

Royal Navy ships fighting the slave trade had as many as 40 Africans ... The Krou tribe from coastal Liberia and Sierra Leone were skilled seamen with local knowledge that was vital to the Navy's ...

It will be seen, from the opening sentences of this address, that the Maroons of Jamaica have a history ... but were subsequently removed to Sierra Leone, where they have intermingled with ...