Anthem Press - Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal
Brand: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839983405
Pages: 450 Pages
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Series: Anthem Advances in African Cultural Studies
Category: Geographical Discovery & Exploration