SOME BRIEF NOTES ON
THE KRIOS OF SIERRA LEONE
Background points to provide basic informationfor late 20th and early 21st centuries descendants
1. The constituents that evolved into the KRIO by the middle of the 19th century -
a. The Black Poor - the original settlers of the Province of freedom (1787).
b. The Nova Scotians from Canada - freed slaves that had helped the British fight the American War of Independence. They restarted the Colony in 1792.
c. The Maroons from Jamaica(1800).
d.The Liberated Africans 1808 - 1860. Rescued slaves from all over the sub-region including some from tribes in the provinces of Sierra Leone. The Yorubas were the largest single ethnic group among the liberated Africans hence the culture of the Krios was profoundly influenced by the Yoruba culture. That is why today there are the Christian Krio and the Muslim Krio (the Marabout) descendants.