Cline Town
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Cline Town is an area in
Freetown, Sierra Leone. The area is named for Emmanuel Kline, a Hausa
Liberated African who bought substantial property in the area. The neighborhood is in the vicinity of Granville Town, a settlement established in 1787 and re-established in 1789 prior to the founding of the Freetown settlement on 11 March 1792.
Granville Town, as Cline Town was known at the time, was established in 1787 by the London-based
Province of Freedom before it was destroyed in 1789. The town was rebuilt in 1791 with the assistance of Alexander Falconbridge, a former surgeon on a slave ship.[2]
This settlement differed from the
Freetown Colony that was established on 11 March 1792 by the Nova Scotian Settlers.[1] Although the Nova Scotians established Freetown in 1792, the Jamaican Maroons were settled in Granville Town in 1800 following their arrival from Nova Scotia. However, by 1800, the settlement had been largely abandoned following attacks by Temne tribesmen of the Koya Empire, and the Maroons were soon after moved to the Freetown settlement where they formed a district that would be known later as Maroon Town. Some Creole families such as the Clarkes and Reeds (Reids) may be descendants of the Old Settlers.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-06-053916-0.
- ISBN 1-55553-432-5.
External links
- Medford, Edna (26 June 2006). "After Words with Simon Schama". C-SPAN. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
Simon Schama was interviewed about his book Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, published by Ecco.