sentences:  The Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme was formulated because humanitarians like Granville Sharp saw it as a means of showing the pro-slavery lobby that black people could contribute towards the running of the new colony of Sierra Leone.Government officials became involved because they saw the scheme as a useful tool to remove the black poor from the streets of London.William Pitt the Younger, prime minister and leader of the Tory party, had an active interest in the Scheme.