CULTURETECHLENSFreetown
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Combined Graph record U-01395 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0070. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
The African Union CIEFFA page for the Republic of Sierra Leone (tier 1) identifies Freetown as Sierra Leone's capital ('thus the name of the capital, "Freetown"'), places Sierra Leone 'on the west coast of Africa,' and states that near the close of the eighteenth century Sierra Leone 'became a resettlement site for freed slaves from England and the Americas' and that liberated Africans from intercepted slave ships were released 'in Freetown, in what became a rapidly expanding settlement' — establishing Freetown as a city and the capital of Sierra Leone, in Sierra Leone, founded as a freed-slave resettlement (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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The African Union CIEFFA page for the Republic of Sierra Leone (tier 1) identifies Freetown as Sierra Leone's capital ('thus the name of the capital, "Freetown"'), places Sierra Leone 'on the west coast of Africa,' and states that near the close of the eighteenth century Sierra Leone 'became a resettlement site for freed slaves from England and the Americas' and that liberated Africans from intercepted slave ships were released 'in Freetown, in what became a rapidly expanding settlement' — establishing
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- https://cieffa.au.int/es/node/141 (verification source · master store)
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The African Union CIEFFA page for the Republic of Sierra Leone (tier 1) identifies Freetown as Sierra Leone's capital ('thus the name of the capital, "Freetown"'), places Sierra Leone 'on the west coast of Africa,' and states that near the close of the eighteenth century Sierra Leone 'became a resettlement site for freed slaves from England and the Americas' and that liberated Africans from intercepted slave ships were released 'in Freetown, in what became a rapidly expanding settlement' — establishing Freetown as a city and the capital of Sierra Leone, in Sierra Leone, founded as a freed-slave resettlement (fetched in full 2026-10-17)
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