Complex sentence: He was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (then under Danish rule) to free parents on August 3,1832, and died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on February 7,1912.
Split into simpler sentences: He was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (then under Danish rule) to free parents on August 3,1832. He died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on February 7,1912.