Freetown
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Freetown 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, econo
Freetown aerialview
Freetown Court 1984
Freetown street
Sierra Leone National Stadium
John Clarkson (abolitionist)
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Lieutenant John Clarkson was a Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator and abolitionist. He was the younger brother of Thomas Clarkson, one of the central figures in the British abolitionist moveme
Freetown
…widely spoken language in the city. The city of Freetown was founded on March 11, 1792, by 1,196 African Americans under the guidance of abolitionist Lieutenant John Clarkson at the foot of the Cotton Tree, and the city became a settlement for free and freed African American, Afro-Caribbean and Liberated African slaves. Their…
c. 1791 miniature portrait of Clarkson
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson in Nova Scotia.
The grave of John Clarkson in the graveyard of St Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge