John Kizell was an American immigrant who became a leader in Sierra Leone as it was being developed as a new British colony in the early nineteenth century. Believed born on Sherbro Island, he was kidnapped and enslaved as a child and shipped to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was sold again. Years later, after the American Revolutionary War, during which he gained freedom with the British and was evacuated to Nova Scotia, he eventually returned to West Africa. In 1792, he was among 50 native-born Africans among the 1200 predominantly African-American Black Loyalists resettled in Freetown.
A Baptist, Kizell belonged to the congregation of African American David George (Baptist). After reaching Freetown, Kizell soon returned to his native Sherbro Island, across the Sherbro River estuary from the mainland.
Kizell had learned English in South Carolina and soon served as an intermediary between the British colonial government and the Sherbro on the island. The people were also predominant in the nearby mainland region.
From about 1818 to 1820, Kizell worked with agents of the American Colonization Society, who had a resettlement plan for free blacks from the United States. He worked with Samuel Bacon, Samuel Crozer, and new African-American settlers to help colonize the territory that would later become the Republic of Liberia.
JohnKizell was an American immigrant who became a leader in Sierra Leone as it was being developed as a new British colony in the early nineteenth century...
Africans Moses Wilkinson, American Methodist preacher JohnKizell, American immigrant to Sierra Leone John Marrant, Methodist preacher Cato Perkins, American...
Scotian traders such as Cato Preston, Eli Ackim, William Easmon, and JohnKizell were forced to give up their homes because of business ventures gone...
commissioned a survey of possible areas, including Sherbro Island. They found JohnKizell, a Sherbro born locally who had returned after being captured and held...
known as Black Loyalists, evacuated by the British after the war was JohnKizell, who had been captured as a child from the area of Sierra Leone and transported...
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in the 1780s. Early histories credit Serjeant Jacob Dittrick and Private John Hainer, formerly of Butler's Rangers, among the first to come to the area...
abolitionists Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Thomas's brother John Clarkson, who is considered one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone....
of Sierra Leone and late wife of former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah JohnKizell, African-American immigrant to Sierra Leone born on Sherbro Island Paul...
Godfrey. Her son, John, married the sister of Isaac, Hester Godfrey, on January 13, 1838. Her daughter Margaret Fortune married John Francis of Digby by...
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of England, Thomas Boddington, the noted philanthropist and slave owner, John Julius Angerstein, General Robert Melville. Montagu Burgoyne was the original...
groundbreaking biography of JohnKizell, a man of the Sherbro tribe of Sierra Leone who was transported to slavery in South Carolina. Kizell completed the full...
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British Colony called Sierra Leone, which was founded by a British Lieutenant John Clarkson for freedmen in South Africa. During the 1784 Shelburne riots that...
black. On 26 October 1791, 350 people gathered in Wilkinson's church to hear John Clarkson from England explain the Sierra Leone Company's plans to reestablish...
lands and overcrowded settlement of Birchtown. The Governor of Nova Scotia, John Parr, traveled to Shelburne on August 23 to attempt to settle the disputes...
the foremost black merchants of the colony, including the successful JohnKizell. They penned a petition to the African Institution, stating that the...
14 August 2015. NALIS 2016. Weiss 2002. UK National Archives ADM 1/4228 John McNish Weiss, "‘Averse to any kind of controul’: American refugees from slavery...
Carolina, who became a missionary to Sierra Leone. Cato was enslaved by John Perkins. Cato Perkins self-emancipated by joining the British during the...
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Jane Thompson, also known as Jenny, and her mother Sabina were enslaved by John Tucker, who came with his brother to Virginia from the Caribbean about the...
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