Nova Scotian Settlers
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The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers, were African Americans and Black Canadians of Black American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson.
Sierra Leone Creole people
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The Sierra Leone Creole people are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Liberated African slaves who settled i
Nova Scotian Settlers
…territory, tending to marry among themselves and with Europeans in the colony. The Settler descendants gradually developed as an ethnicity known as the Sierra Leone Creole people. Loan words in the Krio language and the "bod oses" of their modern-day descendants are some of their cultural imprints. Although the Jamaican Maroons…
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Freetown in 1803
Captain Paul Cuffee transported 38 African Americans to Freetown in 1815
1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.