Sierra Leone could be a place to relocate to and connect with locals, who say they are ready to welcome Black Americans.

Analysis - Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves who were returned to Africa by British members of the movement to end slavery. Founded in ...

Mr Peters was honoured by the government of Sierra Leone in 1998. Charlotte Street will be renamed Sengeh Pieh in memory of the African slave who led a revolt on the Amistad, a slave ship, in 1839 as ...

John Quincy Adams exemplified the courage and commitment to our founding ideals that made an end to slavery possible.

Historic ties between SC and West Africa run deep. A new travel restriction on Sierra Leone could hinder efforts to honor ...

The houses were built by newly freed slaves, who’d travelled to Sierra Leone from the Caribbean, Britain and North America in the late 18th century and many argue that they should be preserved. Krio ...

Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, has a special significance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade as the departure point for thousands of west African captives.

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 ...

The founding of Sierra Leone. The Atlantic Slave Trade began around the 1520s, but the area around Sierra Leone was not a major contributor to the trade before the middle of the 1700s.