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*At about the same time (following the abolition of the slave trade in 1807), British crews delivered thousands of formerly enslaved Africans to Freetown, after liberating them from '''illegal slave ships'''. These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the '''white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons.''' | *At about the same time (following the abolition of the slave trade in 1807), British crews delivered thousands of formerly enslaved Africans to Freetown, after liberating them from '''illegal slave ships'''. These Liberated Africans or recaptives were sold for $20 a head as apprentices to the '''white settlers, Nova Scotian Settlers, and the Jamaican Maroons.''' | ||
*Many recaptives were so unhappy that they risked the possibility of being sold back into slavery by leaving Sierra Leone and '''going back to their original villages'''. They built a flourishing trade in flowers and beads on the West African coast. | *Many recaptives were so unhappy that they risked the possibility of being sold back into slavery by leaving Sierra Leone and '''going back to their original villages'''. They built a flourishing trade in flowers and beads on the West African coast. | ||
*Disparities in the entries of the recaptives, specifically in the names; many recaptives decided to change their given names to more anglicised versions which contributed to the difficulty in tracking them after they arrived in Sierra Leone.<ref name="SL"/> | |||
===Emigration From Sierra Leone=== | ===Emigration From Sierra Leone=== | ||