"Freetown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (the language of the re-settled ex-slave population of the Freetown area and is ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... result fifteen vessels sailed with eleven hundred and ninety Negroes in 1792. Arriving in Africa, they found the chief white man in control there so drunk that he soon died of delirium tremens. John Clarkson, however, brother of Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist, eventually took the lead, founded Freetown, and the colony began its checkered career. In 1896 the colony was saved from insurrection by the exiled Maroon Negroes from Jamaica. After 1833, when emancipation in English colonies took place, severer measures against ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois
... on the West Coast of Africa date from 1672, when the British African Company was first formed. The British protectorate is estimated to extend over 3,000 square miles. Freetown, the capital, is built on a peninsula ...
— The Last Voyage - to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' • Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
... Then we clung to the end of Africa for seven days and then sailed east for a decade till Australia got in our way, and as it could not be passed without a long detour, we were deposited on its soil. In nine weeks we only called at two ports, Freetown on the west coast of Africa, and Durban on the east coast. Freetown has the usual strong combination smell of nigger, cinnamon, and decaying vegetation, in an atmosphere of heavy steam, that characterizes all tropical towns inhabited by our "black brother." We were ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett
... Early Sunrise, Everett, Calvert, White Peachblow, Carmen No. 1, White Beauty, Dandy, Early Harvest, Empire State, Early Market, New Queen, Bovee, Pingree, Bliss Triumph, Quick Crop, Sir Walter Raleigh, Beauty of Hebron, American Wonder, White Giant, Great Divide, Maggie Murphy Chas. Slocum, Freetown Corners. Bronze medal Potatoes.—Polarus C. C. Smith, Bath Carrots Mangels Jay W. Smith, Fulton. Bronze medal Potatoes.—Vermont Gold Coin, Eureka, Potentate, Burpee's Extra Early, Early Northern, Irish Cobler Steuben County. Silver medal Potatoes Steuben Nature Study Workers, Bath Potatoes.—Cambridge ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis |
