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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: African Histories and Modernities
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This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in
Sierra Leone's history from the fifteenth century to the end of its
civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its
days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free
slaves, and toward its political independence and civil war. In
1462, the country was discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de
Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). Sierra Leone
later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At
the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for
the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling.
The Black Poor were joined by the Nova Scotians, American slaves
who supported or fought with the British during the American
Revolution. The Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, arrived in
1800. The Recaptives, freed in enforcement of British antislavery
laws, were also taken to Freetown. Freetown became a British colony
in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained political independence from
Britain in 1961. The development of the country was derailed by the
death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and thirty
years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil
war.
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