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Settler Town, Sierra Leone
Settler Town, Sierra Leone or ''Settler Tong'' in Krio is the oldest part of Freetown, Sierra Leone and was the home of the Nova Scotian Settlers Settlers were African American ex-slaves (who immigrated to Sierra Leone and established the first permanent free African American settlement in Africa). During the nineteenth century, Settler Town was a prestigious residential area, due to the fact it was the original portion of Freetown, Sierra Leone, having been established on March 11, 1792.
==History of Settler Town==
On January 15, 1792, Lt. John Clarkson (abolitionist) led 1,196 black Americans from Halifax Harbor in fifteen ships across the Atlantic to the geographical region of Sierra Leone where these immigrants would establish a colony and the settlement of Free Town on March 11, 1792. In Freetown, these American ex-slaves were known as the 'Nova Scotians' and the 'Settlers'. Following the arrival of the Maroons in 1800 and the settlement of these second set of colonists in Freetown, Settler Town distinguished from the Maroon district in Freetown and became a walled town.
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