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Author Braidwood, Stephen J

Title Black poor and white philanthropists : London's Blacks and the foundation of the Sierra Leone settlement, 1786-1791 / Stephen J. Braidwood
Published Liverpool : Published for the Department of History, University of Liverpool [by] Liverpool University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 324 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Liverpool historical studies ; no. 10
Liverpool historical studies ; no. 10.
Summary Examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787, which was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. The book outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa which underlay the foundation of the settlement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Poor Black people -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
Emigration and immigration
Poor Black people
Race relations
Schwarze
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
Sierra Leone -- Emigration and immigration
Subject England -- London
Great Britain
Sierra Leone
London
Freetown
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). History (LSO) Jun 2013
LC no. 92243555
ISBN 9781846317293
1846317290