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Cookie akzeptierenJoseph Kaifala
Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- 2018
- Taschenbuch
- 364 Seiten
- ISBN 9781349956579
This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone¿s history from the 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). Sierra Leone later became a lucrative hub for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. At the end of slavery in England, Freetown was selected as a home for the Black
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