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Events on Wednesday 9 May 1787 1
1787Province of Freedom founded on the Sierra Leone coastBritish abolitionists settle freed Black Britons on the West African coastGranville Sharp and British backers landed a group of formerly enslaved Black Londoners and other settlers on the Sierra Leone peninsula in May 1787, founding the Province of Freedom. The settlement struggled against disease and local resistance and was later refounded as Freetown.