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 addresses itself to the philosophy of Buxtonianism and its influence on the abolition of the African slave trade within the British empire, particularly the colony of Sierra Leone.

"From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States--a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into ...

I expected to be an outsider in Freetown. Despite the same skin color, I’d have little in common with the average Sierra Leonean. We were worlds, and literally, an ocean apart. I tried to put all ...

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Sierra Leone is not your usual travel destination—at least not yet. The country has endured a fair degree of setbacks, from its role at the heart of the transatlantic slave trade, Ebola outbreaks, and ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A reproduction of the slave ship Amistad, known for the 1839 uprising of enslaved African captives from Sierra Leone who overthrew the crew and ultimately brought the ship into Long ...