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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 Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792.
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
The Cotton Tree was a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that was a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.The Cotton Tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of formerly enslaved African Americans, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War, settled the site of modern Freetown.
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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.
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.