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==Online Sources== | ==Online Sources== | ||
*'''1787:''' [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/sierra-leone-resettlement-scheme-1787 Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme, 1787] at Findmypast — index ($) Search the passenger lists of settlers – including many Black Loyalists– setting out from England for the British colony of Sierra Leone in 1787. | |||
*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/loyalists/book-of-negroes/Pages/introduction.aspx Book of Negroes] Some of the Loyalists listed in this document eventually immigrated to Sierra Leone. | |||
*'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | |||
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel%20%26%20migration&sid=999 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | |||
*'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971] Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries. | *'''1946-1971''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/ Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971] Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries. | ||
*[[United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records]] | |||
==Sierra Leone Emigration and Immigration== | ==Sierra Leone Emigration and Immigration== | ||
<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | ||
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | |||
===Immigration to Sierra Leone=== | ===Immigration to Sierra Leone=== | ||
*By 1495, the '''Portuguese''' had built a fortified trading post on the coast. The '''Dutch and French''' also set up trade here, and each nation used Sierra Leone as a '''trading point for slaves''' brought by African traders from interior areas undergoing wars and conflicts over territory. In 1562, the English initiated the Triangle Trade when admiral Sir John Hawkins of the Royal Navy transported 300 enslaved Africans – acquired "by the sword and partly by other means" – to the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea area of the West Indies islands, where he sold them. | *By 1495, the '''Portuguese''' had built a fortified trading post on the coast. The '''Dutch and French''' also set up trade here, and each nation used Sierra Leone as a '''trading point for slaves''' brought by African traders from interior areas undergoing wars and conflicts over territory. In 1562, the English initiated the Triangle Trade when admiral Sir John Hawkins of the Royal Navy transported 300 enslaved Africans – acquired "by the sword and partly by other means" – to the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea area of the West Indies islands, where he sold them. | ||
*In the late 18th century, many African-Americans claimed the protection of the British Crown. There were thousands of these Black Loyalists, people of African descent who joined the British military forces during the American Revolutionary War. Many of these Loyalists had been slaves who escaped to join the British, lured by promises of freedom (emancipation). The official documentation known as the Book of Negroes lists thousands of freed slaves whom the British evacuated from the nascent United States and resettled in colonies elsewhere in British North America (north to Canada, or south to the West Indies). | *In the late 18th century, many African-Americans claimed the protection of the British Crown. There were thousands of these Black Loyalists, people of African descent who joined the British military forces during the American Revolutionary War. Many of these Loyalists had been slaves who escaped to join the British, lured by promises of freedom (emancipation). The official documentation known as the [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/loyalists/book-of-negroes/Pages/introduction.aspx Book of Negroes] lists thousands of freed slaves whom the British evacuated from the nascent United States and resettled in colonies elsewhere in British North America (north to Canada, or south to the West Indies). | ||
*Pro-slavery advocates accused the Black Poor of being responsible for a large proportion of crime in 18th century London. Many in London thought that moving them to Sierra Leone would lift them out of poverty.<ref name="SL">"Sierra Leone", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | *Pro-slavery advocates accused the Black Poor of being responsible for a large proportion of crime in 18th century London. Many in London thought that moving them to Sierra Leone would lift them out of poverty.<ref name="SL">"Sierra Leone", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme==== | ====Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme==== | ||
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*According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007. Nearly 20,000 Liberian refugees voluntarily returned to Liberia over the course of 2007. Of the refugees remaining in Sierra Leone, nearly all were Liberian. | *According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Sierra Leone had a population of 8,700 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2007. Nearly 20,000 Liberian refugees voluntarily returned to Liberia over the course of 2007. Of the refugees remaining in Sierra Leone, nearly all were Liberian. | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/257960-redirection Sierra Leone After a Hundred Years], e-book | |||
*[https://www.worldcat.org/title/black-loyalists-the-search-for-a-promised-land-in-nova-scotia-and-sierra-leone-1783-1870/oclc/30818343 The Black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870] | |||
There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog: | ||
*{{ | *{{FSC|Sierra Leone - Colonization|subject|subject-id=299789319|disp=Sierra Leone - Colonization}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Sierra Leone]] | [[Category:Sierra Leone]] | ||
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