Waterloo Riot in Sierra Leone 1843

The "liberated Africans" outstripped other settlers in the Freetown area in wealth and influence. The most enterprising of them moved from the villages to Freetown, and then, down the coast. Sometimes there were violent quarrels between them. One of these, at Christmas 1843, led to a riot at Waterloo, twenty miles east of Freetown, which resulted in the setting up of a committee representing all the seventeen nations from which the settlers there originally came.

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West Africa, 19.

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