Sierra Leone Company
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The Sierra Leone Company was the corporate body involved in founding the second British colony in Africa on 11 March 1792 through the resettlement of Black Loyalists who had initially been settled in
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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
Sierra Leone Company
…the second British colony in Africa on 11 March 1792 through the resettlement of Black Loyalists who had initially been settled in Nova Scotia (the Nova Scotian Settlers) after the American Revolutionary War. The company came about because of the work of the ardent abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry…
The gravestone of Lawrence Hartshorne, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson.