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The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in the sale and cession, in 1787, by native chiefs to English settlers, of a piece of land intended as a home for natives of Africa who were waifs in London, and later it was used as a settlement for Africans rescued from slave-ships.
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Annual Report on Sierra Leone, 1958. HMSO, 1960
Atlas of Sierra Leone. Ed. Survey and Lands Dept. Freetown, 1953
Sierra Leone Studies. Ed. J. D. Hargreaves. Freetown, 1953 ff.
Fyfe, C., A History of Sierra Leone. OUP, 1962
Jack, D. T., Economic Survey of Sierra Leone. Government Printer, Freetown, 1958
Lewis, R., Sierra Leone. HMSO, 1954
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Steinberg, S.H. (1964). Sierra Leone. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270930_17
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