William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect founded Sierra Leone, then tolerated a form of slavery there, a new book reveals. Dig all you want, but you’re not going to find any dirt on him ...

Bronwen Everill received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Huntington Library for this research. Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed ...

Sierra Leone wasn’t created like other African countries; its backbone was slavery. Here’s how it happened: Freetown Sierra Leone [Kayak] Today is International Day for the Remembrance of the ...

Published on April 7, 1866, the newspaper ad listed her children by their names: Cherry, Viny, Mills, Noah, John, Eli, Thomas ...

The Sankofa Bird is a mythical African bird that is pictured facing forward with its head turned backwards with an egg in its mouth. The word Sankofa comes from a Ghana language and means “to ...

rape and sexual slavery. The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, based in The Hague, is the successor to a court established by the United Nations in 2002 to try those who bear "the greatest ...

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. The capital ...