The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies

Easmon’s service in the Allied Powers campaign in the Cameroons, it is important to examine the service of Sierra Leoneans in the British military in the century preceding the Great War.16 Although M. [...] Easmon was a Sierra Leonean who belonged to a small ethnic group known as the Sierra Leone Creoles, the descendants of freed slaves and freemen from the Americas, Great Britain, and West Africa.18 The Creoles were primarily based in the city of Freetown and in the surrounding settlements around the coastal peninsula area of Sierra Leone, which was then known as the Colony of Sierra Leone.19 Howeve. [...] In the post-colonial era, the former Colony of Sierra Leone was Americas and across West Africa, a significant number of the ancestors of the Sierra Leone Creoles had served in major British military conflicts dating back to the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars.20 Furthermore, with a natural harbour and as a major British naval base, Freetown, the principal settlement in Sierra L. [...] A significant number of the early black colonists who established the first ex-slaves colonies in Sierra Leone were African Americans who had served in the American Revolutionary War.23 Some of the Black Poor who established the Province of Freedom in 1787 and the Nova Scotian Settlers who established the second Colony of Sierra Leone in 1792, had escaped to British lines during the American Revol. [...] Easmon served in the militia and George William Nicol, (1810-1883), a Nova Scotian Settler descendant attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Militia in 1858.35 Sierra Leoneans had also served in the Sierra Leone Frontier Police which would later become re-organised as the Sierra Leone Battalion of the West African Frontier Force.36 The Frontier Police served in areas outside the Colony in.