Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, is widely known as the home of formerly enslaved people – hence its name. Founded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or liberated in ...

The article explores the history of Sierra Leone taken from the diaries of its first governor, John Clarkson, and the reports of the Sierra Leone Company. The early settlers of St. George Bay ...

Sierra Leone wasn’t created like other African countries; its backbone was slavery. Here’s how it happened: Slaves served as the primary workforce for the British on tobacco and sugar cane plantations ...