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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Renner and Peter Hartwig, both German Lutherans, were the first CMS missionaries in Africa, recruited to a mission in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1804. [2] Elizabeth Renner , a Canadian-born missionary teacher who taught in Sierra Leone after emigrating from Nova Scotia in 1792, became the housekeeper of Melchior Renner in 1804, whom she later ...
It comprises the oldest city and national capital Freetown and its surrounding towns and countryside. It covers an area of 1,310 km 2 and has a population of 1,447,271. The Western Area is located mostly around the peninsula and is divided into two districts: the Western Area Rural and the Western Area Urban .
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, ironically, gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War), settled the site of modern Freetown.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The British resettled 3,000 of the African Americans in Nova Scotia, where many found the climate harsh and struggled with discrimination from white Nova Scotians. More than 1,200 volunteered to settle and establish the new colony of Freetown, which was established by British abolitionists under the Sierra Leone Company.