Peoples & MigrationThe 1800s

Peoples & Migration in the 1800s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1800s — 3 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1800 to 1808. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
2
Earliest
1800
Latest
1808
Africa
2
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Sierra Leone

    Jamaican Maroons arrive

    About 550 Jamaican Maroons, exiled after the Second Maroon War, arrived in Freetown and helped put down a revolt by the Nova Scotian settlers against the Sierra Leone Company.

    Era: The Province of Freedom and the founding of Freetown

    Sources: Freetown, Sierra Leone (1792– ) · BlackPast.org, Sierra Leone (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. North America

    Belize

    The Garifuna reach the southern coast

    The Garifuna (Garinagu), deported by the British from St. Vincent, settled the southern coast around Stann Creek and Punta Gorda; their arrival on 19 November is marked as Garifuna Settlement Day, a national holiday from 1941.

    Era: British Honduras and a plural society

    Sources: Guyana and Belize: Country Studies (Federal Research Division) · Library of Congress, History of Belize · Encyclopædia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Sierra Leone

    The West Africa Squadron frees the recaptives

    Courts at Freetown emancipated more than 80,000 'Liberated Africans' rescued from slave ships by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, who were resettled in and around the colony.

    Era: Crown Colony, Liberated Africans, and the Krio

    Sources: Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone · Wikipedia, Sierra Leone (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica