History of Sierra Leone European contacts with Sierra Leone were among the first in West Africa, and Sierra
Leone was one of the first West African British colonies. Foreign settlement did not occur
until 1787, when the British prepared a refuge within the British empire for freed slaves; that
year, the site of Freetown received 400 freedmen from Great Britain. [eng]
History of Sierra Leone 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. [eng]