Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Black and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786-1791
By (author): "Stephen J. Braidwood"
ISBN0853233772
ISBN139780853233770
AsinBlack Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Black and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786-1791
Original titleBlack Poor and White Philanthropists (Liverpool Historical Studies)
This book 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. It outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa which 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 the blacks themselves played a part?
