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.

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Scattered across Sierra Leone's capital Freetown stand ageing wooden houses, some of which look more like they belong on the east coast of 18th century America than in a steamy ...

"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 ...

Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in ...

Hundreds gathered on the west lawn of the Alachua County Administration Building at 12 SE First St. on Monday to witness the unveiling of the Sankofa bird statue in honor of the late Patricia Hilliard ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Conversation) – On the night of July 1, ...

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 ...