Wednesday, August 22, 2007

West Africa

Most of us know that Liberia was founded by Americans seeking to repatriate blacks back to Africa in the early 1800's.

But the country of Sierra Leone was started earlier, by the British, to settle blacks who had helped them in their fight against the Colonials during the Revolutionary War. (Yet not fully independent until 1961).

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