The history of Sierra Leone is one of departures and arrivals. Between 1581 and 1867, European slave traders carried away an estimated 389,000 Africans from the regions in and around what now constitutes the country of Sierra Leone. In the late eighteenth century, as Britain began contemplating the legal abolition of the slave trade, Sierra Leone became the destination for a reverse migration of enslaved Africans and their descendants who sought to return from the Americas. Between 1787 and 1800 more than two thousand formerly enslaved men, women, and children sailed from Britain, Nova Scotia, and Jamaica to populate a nascent colony financed by British abolitionists and like-minded businessmen. On the coast of West Africa these three waves of colonists hoped to create what abolitionist Granville Sharp called a province of freedom.""--
- | Author: Richard Peter Anderson
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 308 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1108461875
- | ISBN-13: 9781108461870
