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J. F. Easmon treated this colony’s rampant “blackwater fever” a century after Anna Maria Falconbridge narrated “two voyages” during its deadly rainy seasons. Jamaican Maroons crushed a Methodist rebellion against this colony’s monopolistic namesake company, which bought land from Naimbana of Koya around the Rice Coast’s cotton tree. This colony’s (10[1])Anglican Fourah Bay College (-5[1])educated Samuel Ajayi Crowther (10[1])and Africanus Horton. Bai Bureh (10[1])led 1898 resistance to a hut tax in this colony, which was conceived by Granville Sharp to relieve London’s poor. This colony’s Vice-Admiralty Court judged the Preventative Squadron’s (-5[1])“recaptives” after an 1807 act. Thomas Peters, a founder (10[1])of this colony’s (10[1])Krio (-5[1])elite, left (10[2])Nova Scotia (10[1]-5[1])in 1792. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])35 Amistad mutineers and many Black Loyalists (-5[1])resettled (10[2])what British colony bordering Liberia? (10[1])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: Sierra Leone [or Salone; accept Freetown or Province of Freedom; accept Granville Town until “Granville” is read; accept Sierra Leone Colony (and Protectorate), Sierra Leone Protectorate, Colony of Sierra Leone and its Dependencies, Sierra Leone Company, or Friendly Society of Sierra Leone; prompt on British West Africa or British West African Settlements or British West African Territories] (The West Africa Squadron formed after the Slave Trade Act 1807.)
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