The Liberated Africans Act 1853
WHEREAS Doubts have been entertained whether Africans who have been liberated, or taken and received under the Protection of the Crown, under the Provisions of the Acts for the Abolition and Suppression of the Slave Trade, and are domiciled in the Colony of Sierra Leone and its Dependencies, are British Subjects, and Doubts have been also entertained as to the Authority of the local Legislature of that Colony in legislating in relation to the Rights and Obligations of such Africans: Be it ena...