 While information on the day-to-day lives of the liberated Africans living in Sierra Leone is scarce, there remains registers of Africans liberated by the British, letters written to the governor, and other sources that allow the present to understand the lives of the Africans forced to remain there.In the registers kept by the British, many of the African names were changed to European ones, highlighting the transition to their new circumstances in a British colony.Through the registers, it is clear that recaptives were forced to be apprentices to Europeans and often sold as apprentices.