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 explores the history of Sierra Leone taken from the diaries of its first governor, John Clarkson, and the reports of the Sierra Leone Company. The early settlers of St. George Bay ...

"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 ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, August 9 (UNHCR) - Sierra Leone is experiencing a wave of homecoming this week as its refugees in Liberia continue streaming home while their counterparts from Guinea make the ...

Still in a celebratory mood over the election of America's first black president, students and guests at South Carolina State University's I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium on Thursday evening were ...