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The Krio People, also known as the Sierra Leone Creoles, are descendants of African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Africans who were rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the British Royal Navy. Today, the Krio people number over 100,000 people and makeup about 1.2 percent of the Sierra Leonean population. The Krio People, along with the Americo-Liberians, are regarded as the only recognized ethnic group of African American, Liberated African, and Afro-Caribbean descent in West Africa. The first to find a colony in Sierra Leone were 411 African American and Afro-Caribbean settlers who arrived in the year 1787. These settlers partly consisted of African Americans who had joined British forces during the American Revolutionary War and were promised freedom from enslavement. These settlers arrived in successive waves to the Western area of Sierra Leone and, in the year 1792, the city of Freetown was founded by Nova Scotian Settlers. The Nova Scotian Settlers were formerly enslaved African Americans who joined British forces during the American Revolutionary War. After the British lost the American War of Independence, they kept their promise to the former slaves and resettled them mainly in Nova Scotia, Canada. In later years, many of these African Americans migrated to Sierra Leone and usually referred to themselves as