Title: The African American odyssey of John Kizell
Description: Story of John Kizell, who was enslaved as a boy and brought to Charleston, who fought with the British military in the Revolutionary War, and who returned to his African homeland to help found a settlement for freed slaves in Sierra Leone. Kizell was one of the most prominent Africans in the antislavery movement of his time.
Subjects: Sierra Leone Company, African American loyalists, Slaves, Slave trade, History, African Americans, Biography, Colonization, Sierra leone, South carolina, biography
Places: South Carolina, Sierra Leone
People: John Kizell (ca. 1760-ca. 1830)
Time periods: To 1896