Peer-Reviewed Article December 31, 2012
The Diaspora of Sierra Leone’s Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and “Liberation” at Freetown, 1808-1863
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Published in: African Economic History
Publisher: University of Wisconsin–Madison • South Africa • 0145-2258 • 2163-9108
Abstract
Between 1808 and 1863 the British Royal Navy liberated an estimated 164,333 Africans from slave ships in the Atlantic. The largest contingent was the over 99,000 landed at Freetown, Sierra Leone, while smaller numbers were emancipated in courts at St. Helena, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Luanda.[2][1