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Sierra Leone Creole people
The Sierra Leone Creoles, or Krio, are descendants of the freed slaves who settled in Freetown from 1787: Black Poor from London, black Nova Scotians, Jamaican Maroons and tens of thousands of Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy. Protestant and English-educated, they dominated the colony's professions and trade, and their English-based Krio language is Sierra Leone's lingua franca.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sierra Leone Creole people. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sierra-leone-creole-people
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