Original Settlers - Freetown, Sierra Leone - Canadian Connection

One of the first groups of North America settlers in Freetown came to Sierra Leone via Nova Scotia. These Nova Scotians, were black loyalists who fought with the British in the American Revolutionary war. Most were  relocated to Nova Scotia by the British from the American states of Virgina, Maryland, North & South Carolina. The majority of these British loyalists had been in America for two, three or four generations. The Nova Scotian's were easily identified apart from other ethnic groups in their new home Freetown Sierra Leone by their accent which was typical of American and British working class citizens of the time. The Nova Scotian settlers were the single greatest Western influence on the development of Freetown.

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