Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786–1791
Stephen J. Braidwood
Abstract
This book examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787 that was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. It outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa that underlay the foundation of the settlement, and the part played by the black settlers themselves, London's ‘Black Poor’. Was the settlement based on a racist deportation designed to keep Britain white (as some accounts claim), or a voluntary emigration in which blacks themselves played a part? Once in West Africa, the settlers faced a struggle to survive against o ... More
Keywords: Freetown, London, Black Poor, deportation, voluntary emigration, West Africa, slave traders, Sierra Leone Company, Sierra Leone
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1994 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853233770 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846317293 |
