Sierra Leone Company
| Sierra Leone Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1791 |
| resolution | 1807 |
| Reason for dissolution | absorbed into the African Institution |
| Seat | |
The Sierra Leone Company was a British colonial company that was instrumental in founding the second colony in Africa on March 11, 1792, later British West Africa and today's Sierra Leone . It was formed by opponents of slavery , including Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson .
The Sierra Leone Company issued the Sierra Leone dollar , the official currency of the area , between 1791 and 1805 .
It is considered to be the successor organization of the St. George's Bay Company , which founded Granville Town , today's Cline Town in Freetown, with 60 settlers in 1791 . The Sierra Leone Company was replaced by the African Institution in 1807 .
20 cents (1791)
1 cent (1791)
literature
- Stephen Braidwood, Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786-1791 , Liverpool University Press, 1994.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas, Lamont D. Paul Cuffe: Black Entrepreneur and Pan-Africanist (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988) p. 59 and Brooks, p. 190-191.