The aftermath of the abolishing of slave trade in africa

In 1787, the British helped 400 freed slaves, primarily African Americans freed during the
American Revolutionary War, West Indians and Africans from London, to relocate to Sierra Leone to settle in what they called the "Province of Freedom." Some had been freed earlier and worked as servants in London.
Most of the first group died due to disease and warfare with indigenous peoples. About 64 survived to settle Granville Town. In 1792, they were joined by 1200 Black Loya
After Britain and the United States abolished the international African slave trade beginning in 1808, they patrolled off the continent to intercept illegal shipping. The British resettled
Emancipated Africans at Freetown.       

lists from Nova Scotia, African Americans and their descendants; some adults had left rebel owners and fought for the British in the revolutionary War. The Crown freed them as promised and resettled 3,000 of the African Americans
in Nova Scotia, where many found the climate and racial discrimination harsh. More than 1200 volunteered to settle in the new colony of Freetown, which was established by British abolitionists. In 1800, the British transported 550 Maroons, militant escaped slaves from Jamaica, to Sierra Leone.

The Liberated Africans included people from the Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Fante, and other ethnicities of West Africa.
Some members of Temne, Limba, Mende, and Loko groups, indigenous Sierra Leone ethnicities, were also among the Liberated Africans resettled at Freetown; they also assimilated into Krio culture. Others came to the settlement voluntarily, seeing opportunities in Krio culture in the society.
     The black poor(1787)
The first settlers to found a colony in Sierra Leone were the so-called "Black Poor": African Americans and West Indians. 411 settlers arrived in May 1787. Some were Black Loyalists who were either evacuated or travelled to England to petition for a land of their own; Black Loyalists had joined British colonial forces during the American Revolutionary War , many on promises of freedom from
enslavement.
Many died on the journey from England but enough survived to establish and build a colony. Seventy white women accompanied the men to Sierra Leone; they were likely wives and girlfriends, though they are traditionally depicted as prostitutes from Deptford Prison. Their Colony was known as the "Province of Freedom" and their settlement was called "Granville Town"' after the English slave trade abolitionist Granville Sharp . The British negotiated for the land for the settlement with the local King Tom.
Although initially there was no hostility between the two groups, after King Tom's death the next Temne chief retaliated for a slave trader's burning his village. He threatened to destroy Granville Town. The Temne ransacked Granville Town and took some Black Poor into slavery, while others became slave traders . In early 1791 Alexander Falconbridge returned, to find only 64 of the original residents (39 black men, 19 black women, and six white women). The 64 people had been cared for by a Greek and a colonist named Thomas Kallingree at Fourah Bay, an abandoned African village. There the settlers re-established Granville Town. After that time, they were called the "Old Settlers". By this time the Province of Freedom had been destroyed; Granville Sharp did not lead the next settlement movement.
The Nova Scotians and the Freetown Colony 1792–1799
The proponents and directors of the Sierra Leone colony believed that a new colony did not need black settlers from London. The directors decided to offer resettlement to African Americans from Nova Scotia, despite the failure of the last colony. These settlers were Black Loyalists, American slaves who had escaped to British lines and fought with them during the American Revolution, to earn freedom. The British had transported more than 3,000 freedmen to Nova Scotia for resettlement, together with white Loyalists. Some of the former African Americans were from South Carolina and the Sea Islands, of the Gullah culture; others were from states along the eastern seaboard up to New England. These blacks immigrated to Sierra Leone from Halifax Harbour on January 15, 1792 and arrived in Sierra Leone between February 28 and March 9, 1792. The Settler men cleared the forest and shrub and built a new settlement on the overgrown site that had formerly contained the Granville Town settlement. On March 11, 1792, the Nova Scotian Settlers disembarked from the 14 passenger ships that had carried them from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone and marched toward a large cotton tree near George Street. As the Settlers gathered under the tree, the Settler preachers held a thanksgiving service and the white minister, Rev. Patrick Gilbert preached a sermon. After the religious services, the settlement was officially established and was designated Freetown. They had a profound influence on Krio culture; much of the Western attributes of Krio society came from the "Settlers" In Sierra Leone they were called the Nova Scotians or "Settlers" (the 1787 Settlers were called the Old Settlers). They founded the capital of Sierra Leone in 1792. The descendants of African Americans remained an identifiable ethnic group until the 1870s, when the Krio identity was beginning to form.
Maroons and other transatlantic immigrants
Main article: Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone
The next arrivals were the Jamaican Maroons ; these Maroons came specifically from Trelawny Town, one of the five Maroon cities in Jamaica. These runaway ex-slaves numbered around 551, and they helped quell some of the riots against the British from the Settlers. The Maroons later fought against the Temne during the Temne Attack of 1801. [10]
The next migrations were smaller. West Indian soldiers from the 2nd and 4th West India Regiments settled in Freetown and in suburbs around it. Thirty-eight African Americans (consisting of nine families) immigrated to Freetown under the auspices of Paul Cuffe of Boston. Black Americans immigrating to Freetown, included Perry Lockes and Prince Saunders from Boston, Abraham Thompson, and Peter Williams from New York, [11] and Edward Jones from Charleston.
Recaptives or Liberated Africans
Main article: Sierra Leone Liberated Africans
An 1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.
The last and major group of immigrants to the colony were the Liberated Africans. [12] Held on slave ships for sale in the western hemisphere, they were liberated by the Royal Navy , which with the West Africa Squadron , enforced the abolition of the international slave trade after 1808. The Liberated Africans, also called Recaptives, contributed greatly to the Krio culture. While the Settlers, Maroons, and transatlantic immigrants gave the Krios their Christianity, some of their customs, and their Western influence; the Liberated Africans modified their customs and culture to that of the Nova Scotians and Europeans, yet kept some of their ethnic traditions. [8] :5 Initially the British intervened to ensure the Recaptives became firmly rooted in Freetown society; they served in the army with the West India Regiment, and they were assigned as apprentices in the houses of Settlers and Maroons. Sometimes if a child's parents died, the young Recaptive would be adopted by a Settler or Maroon family. The two groups mixed and mingled in society. [13] As the Recaptives began to trade and spread Christianity throughout West Africa , they began to dominate Freetown society. The Recaptives intermarried with the Settlers and Maroons, and the two groups became a fusion of African and Western

Temne chief,