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Hidden History: Our Children Free and Happy

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In 1787 a group of freed black slaves and British philanthropists devised a plan to found a "Province of Freedom" in Sierra Leone, where former slaves could be self-governing on their own land. Over the next few years hundreds travelled from England and Nova Scotia to make a new home in West Africa. But the dream of freedom soon turned sour and the settlement ended in disaster.

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