Before the war, after the war: preserving history in Sierra Leone (EAP284)


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Documents which can barely be equalled in importance for telling the Atlantic slavery story. Foremost are the Liberated African Letter Books, which record the slave ships captured by…[...]

Nineteenth century documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives (EAP443)


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Valuable documents of immense importance for research on the transatlantic slave trade and its repercussions. The original Registers of Liberated Africans who were taken off slave ships by…[...]

Sierra Leone, Civil Births and Deaths, 1802-2016


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Index of civil birth and death registration in Sierra Leone from 1802 to 2016. Records are organized chronologically by place. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]PUBLISHER: [pods field="publisher"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]REQUIRES MEMBERSHIP: [pods field="requires_paid_access"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]CLICK…[...]

An account of the colony of Sierra Leone from its first establishment in 1793 : extract from Report of Directors of Sierra Leone Company, read in London on 17th March, 1794


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]A document that provides details about the founding and early development of the colony of Sierra Leone. It appears to be an extract from a report presented by…[...]

United States policy in Sierra Leone : hearing and public meeting before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, October 11, 2000.


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The document you're referring to is a hearing and public meeting held by the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the United States…[...]

Preserving nineteenth-century records in the Sierra Leone Public Archives (EAP782)


[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Census records, police records, court records, military records, school records and demographic records of births and deaths. The material is vital to an understanding of the social…[...]