Sierra Leone Company

The Sierra Leone Company was the corporate body that founded Britain's second African colony on 11 March 1792, through the resettlement of Black Loyalists who had initially been settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. It grew out of the work of the abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Thomas's brother John Clarkson, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone. It succeeded the St. George Bay Company, a corporate body established in 1790 that had re-established Granville Town in 1791 for the sixty remaining Old Settlers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/