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 ...

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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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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