Settra Kru

Settra Kru is one of the Krao settlements on the Atlantic coast southeast of the Sinoe River. In 1588 the English merchant James Welsh recorded a place called Crua, which lay on this stretch of coast. The Krao were skilled fishers and canoeists, able to cross the heavy surf between shore and visiting ships. By the late eighteenth century, men from these coastal communities were also serving aboard European vessels and were known to English sailors as Kroomen.