Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2: October, 1844
After the'close of our revolutionary war, many negroes, who ?ed from their masters, and sought protection with the British armies during its prom gress, were scattered through the Bahama islands and Nova Scotia. Others had found their way to England. In 1787, a private company in England sent four hundred of them, with their own consent, to Sierra Leone, on the western coast of Africa. About five years afterwards, twelve hun dred of those from Nova Scotia were transported to Sierra Leone by the British government. The maroons, from Jamaica, were removed thither in 1805. The hostility of the French, the opposition of the natives, the selection of a situation which proved to be unfortunate in many local particulars, and perhaps more than either, the heterogeneous materials of which that settlement was composed, for some years, retarded its growth. All these difficulties, however, have been surmounted. That colony con tains more than twenty thousand souls, of whom more than three-fourths are re-captured Africans, Whose rapacious owners had destined them for foreign bondage. Towns are reared up, churches and schools established, agriculture has become a settled pursuit, and society has put on a regular and stable appearance.
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