Carol Bolton & Christopher Brown 
Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal [EPUB ebook] 

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In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766–1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792. Beaver’s text in this modern scholarly edition provides an absorbing testimony of his efforts to assist British colonisers in establishing their African settlement. Despite the colonial ambitions of this project, the ‘Bulama Committee’ members were reformists at heart. Their high-minded intentions in purchasing the island and settling it were to demonstrate the anti-slavery principle that propagation by ‘free natives’ would bring ‘cultivation and commerce’ to the region and ultimately introduce ‘civilization’ among them. Beaver’s journal tells the extraordinary account of how the colonists’ ambitions to benefit the African economy and set a precedent of humanitarian labour for the slave-owning lobby in Britain led to the extraordinary emigration of 275 men, women and children in order to put their humanitarian ideals into practice.

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List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Table of Weights and Measures; Introduction; Preface; Author’s Introduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Carol Bolton is a senior lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Her research centres on Romantic-period writing that represents travel, exploration, and colonialism.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 450 ● ISBN 9781839983429 ● Dimensione 3.6 MB ● Editore Carol Bolton & Christopher Brown ● Casa editrice Anthem Press ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2023 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 9121018 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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