The liberated Africans of Sierra Leone were Africans who had been illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy. After the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished Britain's involvement in the slave trade, the Admiralty established the West Africa Squadron to suppress the trade in cooperation with other Western powers. All illegally enslaved Africans liberated by the Royal Navy were taken to Freetown, where Admiralty courts legally confirmed their free status. Afterwards, they were consigned to a variety of unfree labor apprenticeships at the hands of the Nova Scotian Settlers and Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, it has been estimated by historians that roughly
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| - The liberated Africans of Sierra Leone were Africans who had been illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy. After the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished Britain's involvement in the slave trade, the Admiralty established the West Africa Squadron to suppress the trade in cooperation with other Western powers. All illegally enslaved Africans liberated by the Royal Navy were taken to Freetown, where Admiralty courts legally confirmed their free status. Afterwards, they were consigned to a variety of unfree labor apprenticeships at the hands of the Nova Scotian Settlers and Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone. During the 19th century, it has been estimated by historians that roughly (en)
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- List of colonial governors of Sierra Leone
- Murray Town
- History of Sierra Leone
- Bathurst, Sierra Leone
- Blockade of Africa
- Nova Scotian Settlers
- Congress of Vienna
- Gloucester, Sierra Leone
- Creolization
- Leicester, Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone Creole
- Sierra Leone Liberated Africans
- Admiralty (United Kingdom)
- Admiralty court
- Central Africa
- Waterloo, Sierra Leone
- Wellington, Freetown
- West Africa
- West Africa Squadron
- Aberdeen, Sierra Leone
- African diaspora
- Akan people
- British parliament
- Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
- Sierra Leone–United Kingdom relations
- Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Freedmen
- Hastings, Sierra Leone
- Hausa people
- Jamaican Maroons
- Atlantic slave trade
- Abolitionism in the United Kingdom
- People of Liberated African descent
- Charlotte, Sierra Leone
- Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
- Igbo people
- Kissy, Sierra Leone
- Regent, Sierra Leone
- Yoruba people
- Saros (Nigeria)
- Slave ship
- Slave Trade Act 1807
- Sierra Leone Creole people
- Slave trade
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