John Kizell was an American immigrant who became a leader in Sierra Leone as it was being developed as a new British colony in the early nineteenth century...
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Africans Moses Wilkinson, American Methodist preacher John Kizell, an American immigrant to Sierra Leone John Marrant, Methodist preacher Cato Perkins, American...
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Scotian traders such as Cato Preston, Eli Ackim, William Easmon, and John Kizell were forced to give up their homes because of business ventures gone...
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commissioned a survey of possible areas, including Sherbro Island. They found John Kizell, a Sherbro born locally who had returned after being captured and held...
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known as Black Loyalists, evacuated by the British after the war was John Kizell, who had been captured as a child from the area of Sierra Leone and transported...
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Company Sierra Leone people Davis family David George Abraham Hazeley John Kizell Boston King Cato Perkins Thomas Peters Harry Washington Moses Wilkinson...
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body, by Davidson Nicol, was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes. John Farrell Easmon coined the term Blackwater fever and wrote the first clinical...
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the city. Amidst the American Revolutionary War, she is recruited by Sir John Clarkson to help register names of Black Loyalists in a ledger known as The...
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York City & Annapolis Royal, NS. John Copley's The Death of Major Pierson Benjamin West's Reception as a detail of John Eardley Wilmot The Adventures of...
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of England, Thomas Boddington, the noted philanthropist and slave owner, John Julius Angerstein, General Robert Melville. Montagu Burgoyne was the original...
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hundred families associated to form a town at Port Roseway, which Governor John Parr renamed Shelburne later that year, after Lord Shelburne, the British...
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Women's History. University of Toronto Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-8020-6881-2. "John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials". "Crispus Attucks". Biography. Retrieved...
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groundbreaking biography of John Kizell, a man of the Sherbro tribe of Sierra Leone who was transported to slavery in South Carolina. Kizell completed the full...
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of Sierra Leone and late wife of former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah John Kizell, African-American immigrant to Sierra Leone born on Sherbro Island Paul...
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Company Sierra Leone people Davis family David George Abraham Hazeley John Kizell Boston King Cato Perkins Thomas Peters Harry Washington Moses Wilkinson...
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abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Thomas's brother John Clarkson, who is considered one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone....
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black. On 26 October 1791, 350 people gathered in Wilkinson's church to hear John Clarkson from England explain the Sierra Leone Company's plans to reestablish...
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South Carolina. They had a daughter called Clairy (born in 1771) and a son John (born in 1781). Sally and Peters may have once been slaves together in South...
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the foremost black merchants of the colony, including the successful John Kizell. They penned a petition to the African Institution, stating that the...
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Company Sierra Leone people Davis family David George Abraham Hazeley John Kizell Boston King Cato Perkins Thomas Peters Harry Washington Moses Wilkinson...
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British Colony called Sierra Leone, which was founded by a British Lieutenant John Clarkson for freedmen in South Africa. During the 1784 Shelburne riots that...
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14 August 2015. NALIS 2016. Weiss 2002. UK National Archives ADM 1/4228 John McNish Weiss, "‘Averse to any kind of controul’: American refugees from slavery...
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lands and overcrowded settlement of Birchtown. The Governor of Nova Scotia, John Parr, traveled to Shelburne on August 23 to attempt to settle the disputes...
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in the 1780s. Early histories credit Serjeant Jacob Dittrick and Private John Hainer, formerly of Butler's Rangers, among the first to come to the area...
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Church Boston King, first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people John Marrant - the first African-American preacher; a Methodist Moses Wilkinson...
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Godfrey. Her son, John, married the sister of Isaac, Hester Godfrey, on January 13, 1838. Her daughter Margaret Fortune married John Francis of Digby by...
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husband Chekura is presumed dead. A young British naval officer named Captain John Clarkson comes to the black Birchtown communities, promising a better land...
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Carolina, who became a missionary to Sierra Leone. Cato was enslaved by John Perkins. Cato Perkins self-emancipated by joining the British during the...
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Company Sierra Leone people Davis family David George Abraham Hazeley John Kizell Boston King Cato Perkins Thomas Peters Harry Washington Moses Wilkinson...
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Jane Thompson, also known as Jenny, and her mother Sabina were enslaved by John Tucker, who came with his brother to Virginia from the Caribbean about the...
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