Sierra+Leone+History

1492 Arrival of the Portuguese Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbor naming shaped formation Sierra Lyoa.  1700's Slavery The British slave traders at Bunce Island sent many of their captives to the rice plantations of coasted South Carolina and Georgia.

1787 Slavery A plan was emplemented to settle some of Londons black poor in Sierra Leone, in what was called "The Province of Freedom"

1896 Colonial Era Buren declared war on British in Sierra Leone. Hundreds of British troops and hundreds of Burews fighters war killed, he was finally captured on November 11, 1898 and sent into exile, to the Gold Coast.

1961 Independence A military coop over threw the civilian government in 1967, which was in truth replaced by civilian rule a year later. The country declared itself a republic on April 19, 1971. 1990's "Cry Freetown" Sierra Leone was a British colony to which freed slaves returned in the late 1700's. They formed a social class which hardly integrated with the indigenous people.