 A final group of settlers that were deposited in Sierra Leone in the years after 1807 were the Africans who had been released by the British Navy from slave ships that they took captive after the outlawing of transporting slaves on British private ships.These freed blacks came from various areas along the African Coast and many of them had no knowledge of the people or languages in Sierra Leone.Paul Cuffe had for some years taken an interest in the colonial settlements in Africa.