Wilberforce is a neighborhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is home to the Wilberforce military barracks, one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military.[1]
Wilberforce is also home to several foreign embassies, including China, Gambia, Germany, Liberia, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Austria.[2]
History
Wilberforce was founded in 1810 provide accommodation for recaptives, liberated enslaved Africans, who had been brought to Freetown by the British Royal Navy West Africa Squadron. It was formerly known as Cabenda.[1]:122
Notable People from Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
- Isaac Wallace-Johnson, founder of the WAYL
- John 'Johnny' Taylor: Creole trader killed during Sierra Leone's Hut Tax War of 1898
References
- ^ Sanneh, Lamin (2009). Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. Cammbrideg, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
External links
- http://www.wilberforcelecturetrust.co.uk/index.php/lectures/transcript/30/?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=550&width=550
- List of embassies in Freetown
- United Nations document on UNAMSIL