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This book is a historical narrative of Sierra Leone from the§mid-fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from§its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves§and toward its political independence and civil war. In 1462, the country was§discovered by a Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra, who named it Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains). The country§later became a hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Sierra§Leone was chosen as a home for the Black Poor, free slaves in England after the Somerset ruling. The Black Poor were joined by the Nova§Scotians, African-Americans who fought with the British during the American§Revolution, the Maroons, rebellious slaves from Jamaica, and Recaptives, freed§in enforcement of British antislavery laws. Freetown became a British colony in 1808 and Sierra Leone obtained§political independence from Britain in 1961. The development of the country was§derailed by the death of its first Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and§thirty years after independence the country collapsed into a brutal civil war.§This book is a historical narrative covering these periods in Sierra Leonean§history.§

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• Full title: Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
• Author: Joseph Kaifala
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 345
• EAN: 9781349948536
• ISBN: 1349948535
• ID: 02937915
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 5711 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 2016

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