Institution
Sierra Leone Company
The Sierra Leone Company was a British chartered company founded in 1791 by abolitionists to run a settlement for freed Black people on the Sierra Leone peninsula. It took over the failed Province of Freedom, founded Freetown in 1792 with Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia, and handed the colony to the Crown in 1808.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sierra Leone Company. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sierra-leone-company
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- “Sierra Leone Company.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sierra-leone-company. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Sierra Leone Company.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sierra-leone-company.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sierra Leone Company’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sierra-leone-company (Accessed: ).
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