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The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson. [1] [2]The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were African Americans and African Nova Scotians or Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra ...
During the French Revolutionary Wars, on the night of 27 September [3] or on 28 September, [4] 1794, a French squadron arrived and plundered and destroyed Freetown. The Company's ship Harpy , which had just arrived from England with a cargo valued at £10,000, and two smaller vessels were captured, [ 3 ] and the slave factories were put out of ...
The city of Freetown was founded on March 11, 1792, by 1,196 African Americans under the guidance of abolitionist Lieutenant John Clarkson on March 11, 1792, and the city became a settlement for free and freed African American, Afro-Caribbean and Liberated African slaves. Their descendants are known as the Creole people.
[5] [6] Once there, the Nova Scotian Settlers (as they came to be called) and Sierra Leone Company surveyors founded Freetown. [6] A second group, the Jamaican Maroons, originally numbering just under 600 men, women and children who had surrendered following the Second Maroon War in Jamaica, were transported to Nova Scotia in 1796. [3]
In 1804, Elizabeth Renner became a housekeeper to Renner in Freetown. They married in 1808. Elizabeth was a black Canadian-born missionary teacher who taught in Sierra Leone after emigrating from Nova Scotia in 1792. The inter-racial aspects of the marriage were commented on by other missionaries. [3]
Mary Perth (c. 1740–1813+) was an African American colonist and businesswoman in Sierra Leone.. She was a Nova Scotian Settler. [1] She emigrated from Nova Scotia to Freetown in 1792.
In 1792 nearly 1,200 persons from Nova Scotia crossed the Atlantic to build the second (and only permanent) Colony of Sierra Leone and the settlement of Freetown on 11 March 1792. In Sierra Leone they were called the Nova Scotian Settlers , the Nova Scotians , or the Settlers .
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