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	Topics Sierra Leone Company Topic Home The Sierra Leone Company was the organisation involved in founding the first African AmericanAfrican American An African American is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were... colonyColony In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state.... in AfricaAfrica Africa is one of the greatest sized continents of the Earth.... in 1792 through the resettlement of Nova Scotian ex-slaves who had initially been settled in Nova ScotiaNova Scotia Nova Scotia is a Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast.... after the American Revolutionary War. The Sierra Leone Company was the successor to the St George's Bay Company which had made a mostly unsuccessful attempt in 1787 to establish a free settlement for the 'Black Poor' of LondonLondon Overview London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom.... . Both ventures were promoted by the anti-slaverySlavery Slavery is the social and legal designation of specific persons as property or chattel, for the purpose of providing labor a... activist, Granville SharpGranville Sharp Granville Sharp was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade.... who published a prospectus for the proposed company in 1790 entitled Free English Territory in AFRICA. The prospectus made clear its abolitionistAbolitionism Abolitionism was a political movement that sought to abolish the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade.... view and stated that several respectable gentlemen had already subscribed had done so "not with a view of any present profit to themselves, but merely, through benevolence and public spirit, to promote a charitable measure, which may hereafter prove of great national importance to the Manufactories, and other Trading Interests of this Kingdom". Amongst the early subscribers are many friends of Sharp involved in the Clapham SectClapham Sect The Clapham Sect was an influential group of like-minded social reformers in England at the beginning of the nineteenth cent... : Henry ThorntonHenry Thornton (abolitionist) Henry Thornton, economist, banker, philanthropist and MP for Southwark was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect and campa... , William WilberforceWilliam Wilberforce William Wilberforce was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade.... , Rev. Thomas ClarksonThomas Clarkson Thomas Clarkson, abolitionist, was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, and became a leading campaigner against the sla... , Rev. Thomas GisbourneThomas Gisbourne Thomas Gisborne 'the Elder' was an Anglican priest and one of the Clapham Sect, who fought for the abolition of the slave tr... , Samuel WhitbreadFacts About Samuel Whitbread egory:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies\|Whitbread, Samuel]]...