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Chief among them was Edward P. McCabe, who envisioned so large a number of African-Americans settling in the territory that it would become a Black-governed state. In Texas, 357 such "freedom colonies" have been located and verified.
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 Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792.
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.
In the United States, a freedmen's town was an African American municipality or community built by freedmen, formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War. These towns emerged in a number of states, most notably Texas. [1] They are also known as freedom colonies, from the title of a book by Sitton and ...
The list of Sierra Leone Creole people is an incomplete list of notable individuals of Creole ethnicity and ancestry.The Sierra Leone Creole people, who are also referred to as (Krio: Krio people), are the descendants of African-Americans, Jamaican Maroons and Liberated Africans who settled in Freetown between 1787 and around 1885.
Thirty-eight African Americans (nine families) immigrated to Freetown under the auspices of African-American ship owner Paul Cuffe, of Boston. These Black Americans included Perry Lockes and Prince Saunders from Boston; Abraham Thompson and Peter Williams Jr. from New York City; [56] and Edward Jones from Charleston, South Carolina.
Freetown is a former African American community near Gallion, in Hale County, Alabama, United States, in the so-called Canebrake region.Land and buildings formerly owned by a local slave-owning planter were left to both free and enslaved African Americans who had worked for him and lived with him, and the community lasted until the 1920s.
West African Youth League and League of Coloured Peoples branch headquartered in Freetown. [5] [24] Freetown Secondary School for Girls established. [26] 1948 Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings becomes mayor. Population: 64,576. [1] 1953 - Deep Water Quay construction begins. 1961 - City becomes capital of independent Sierra Leone. [4]