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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 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 ...
Freetown (Krio: Fritɔun) is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population ...
1996 - Freetown/New Haven Sister Cities established. [33] 1997 25 March: "Rebels move into Freetown;" [5] prisoners freed from the Pademba Road prison. 30 May: Foreigners evacuated. [34] 2 June: AFRC conflict. 1998 February: "Ecomog storms Freetown and drives rebels out." [4] Kabbah returns to Freetown. [4] 1999
Following their defeat in the American Revolutionary War, the British had resettled African Americans in the British colony of Nova Scotia (now a province of Canada). [1] [2] However, many did not like the colder climate and poor treatment they received, [3] so in 1792 [4] about 1200 [5] to 1800 [1] of them emigrated to Sierra Leone.
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.
Sir Samuel Lewis, first mayor of Freetown and first West African to receive a knighthood. Sir Emile Fashole Luke, former Chief Justice and Speaker of Parliament. Sir Ernest Beoku-Betts, jurist and one-time mayor of Freetown. Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 1962 to 1967
While serving as a missionary to the Sherbro people, who were located in the coastal area about 100 miles south of Freetown, he and his second wife died about 1802. [3] King was survived by two sons and a daughter, according to the 1802 census of Sierra Leone.