Title Two voyages to Sierra Leone during the years 1791, -2, --3 : in a series of letters / by Anna Maria Falconbridge ; to which is added A letter from the author to Henry Thornton, ... M.P. and Chairman of the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company

Published London : Printed for the author, and sold by different booksellers ..., 1794

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 279 pages, 5 unnumbered pages Series Empire online. Section 1, Cultural contacts, 1492-1969 Summary Anne Marie accompanies her husband, the abolitionist Alexander Falconbridge, to Sierra Leone. She describes customs, negotiations over land rights, the attempt to establish a colony of freed slaves at Freetown and her own positive opinion of the slave trade Notes Errata: p. [1] (final sequence) Subject Slave trade -- Sierra Leone -- Early works to 1800. Slave trade -- Australia -- Botany Bay (N.S.W.) -- Early works to 1800. Form Electronic book Author Bodleian Library. Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

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