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An 8 page paper discussing the religious development of colonial Sierra Leone, created for freed former slaves returned to Africa from other countries. Sierra Leone is unique among African nations in that it was created by outside forces for a highly specific reason. It would provide a missions field holding individuals already acquainted with the message that missions sought to promote. The missions of the colonial period were highly successful with individuals, but were unable to translate that success to the nation. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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is unique among African nations in that it was created by outside forces for a highly specific reason. It would provide a missions field holding individuals already acquainted with
the message that missions sought to promote. The missions of the colonial period were highly successful with individuals, but were unable to translate that success to the nation. Brief
History As is the case with so much of Africa, little is known about the area that is now Sierra Leone prior to
the 1490s. European trading ships began stopping there in the 1500s, however, followed soon after by the slave traders. Islam pushed westward
throughout much of the medieval period and into the Renaissance. It was in the early 18th century that the Fulani people east of present-day Sierra Leone invaded to convert
the people of present-day Sierra Leone to Islam. The Fulani continued their holy war to convert the infidels; many migrated toward the east coast of Africa in advance of
invasion. It was in the late 18th century, 1787, that English abolitionist Granville Sharp gathered 400 freed former slaves to repatriate the present-day
Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered from hunger, disease and invasion, and the
settlement was nearly lost. In 1807, however, England outlawed slavery and provided many more immigrants to Freetown. It claimed Sierra Leone as a colony in 1808.
Having abolished slavery in England, the British then set about freeing slaves claimed by any other nation as well. Slave trading continued, of course,
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