Henry Washington

Henry Washington

Henry 'Harry' Washington was a one time African American slave of the first president of the United States, George Washington and part of the first group of immigrants to what eventually became Sierra Leone. Henry Washington was a Black Loyalist and one of the 3000 Black Americans who were evacuated to Nova Scotia at the end of the Revolutionary War. After spending a number of years in Birchtown (the largest free African American city in North America), Washington joined the 1,192 black colonists who migrated to Sierra Leone. Washington later married and his descendants and those of other Black Loyalists make up a portion of the Sierra Leone Creole people.

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