1792 CE
Black Loyalists found Freetown under the Sierra Leone Company
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Migration & diaspora
More than a thousand Black settlers from Nova Scotia reached Sierra Leone and founded Freetown through negotiation and conflict with Temne leaders and an abolitionist company. It was not a simple “return to Africa”: Loyalist migration, corporate colonization, Black aspirations for autonomy, and local African sovereignty intersected
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