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Great Britain outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in 1807 and began to use the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron to enforce its ban. The squadron was based in Freetown, which in 1808 had been made a crown colony.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade began around the 1520s, but the area around Sierra Leone was not a major contributor to the trade before the middle of the 1700s. From 1763 onwards, the number of enslaved people shipped annually from the Sierra Leone coast by British, Portuguese and French traders rarely fell below 1,000 and was often closer to 4,000. Even...
In 1791, another group arrived in the colony and sought out a new treaty of settlement. This group chose to immigrate to Sierra Leone from inhospitable Nova Scotia (Canada), where they had been settled by the British government as “black loyalists” after fleeing from slavery during the American Revolution (1776-1783). A new organisation, the Sierra...
As I found in my research, it was African demand that was shaping the success of the colony and its mission to shift the coast’s commerce away from the slave trade. Records held at the Huntington Library in California show that local buyers paid a higher price for the “SLC” mark – a price paid in goods and currency, rather than in enslaved captives...
There is a misconception that Britain was the first to abolish the slave trade and that it brought enlightened anti-slavery ideas to Africa. This misconception was used to justify the spread of colonial rule in the 19th century. But the history of Sierra Leone shows that, in order to enforce their abolition decrees, the British had to rely on Afric...
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The Atlantic slave trade had a significant impact on Sierra Leone, as this trade flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries, and later as a centre of anti-slavery efforts when the trade was abolished in 1807.
Jun 27, 2020 · On 10 May 1787, English ships anchored on the coast of Sierra Leone in an area then called ‘Frenchman’s Bay’. Aboard were 380 free black ex-slaves ready to found the Province of Freedom where ‘ they could become architects of their own destiny ’.
Nov 2, 2021 · On 3 April 1818, around five o'clock in the morning, eighty armed men showed up at Jacob Faber's slave trading outpost in the Kerefe River in southern Sierra Leone. The intruders plundered the place and took Faber's firearms, food supplies, boats, and anything else of value.
Feb 29, 2024 · In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors. Two unidentified Gullah Geechee women ...
Sierra Leone was chosen in 1787 as the location for a radical slave trade abolitionist plan to establish a settlement of free Black colonists in Africa.
