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Captain Philip Beaver's African journal /
Captain Philip Beaver's journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Anthem Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Anthem nineteenth century studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures.
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes on the Text.
- Table of Weights and Measures.
- Introduction.
- Preface.
- Author's Introduction.
- CHAPTER I. Proceedings of the Bulama Society in England
- CHAPTER II. Proceedings of the Colonists from their leaving England to their arrival in the Bijuga Channel, on the Coast of Africa
- CHAPTER III. Summary of the Calypso's proceedings from the time of her separation to her rejoining the Hankey
- CHAPTER IV. Proceedings from the Rejunction of the Ships, to the Abandonment of the Island of Bulama by the major Part of the Colonists, in the Ship Calypso
- CHAPTER V. Lieutenant Beaver's Journal on the island of Bulama
- CHAPTER VI. Apology for those parts of the preceding Journal which may appear either illegal, or harsh-Objections foreseen and answered-Difficulties which we had to overcome stated-Natives' opinion of the European character-Advantages resulting from our having remained upon the island
- CHAPTER VII. Recapitulation of the principal causes of our failure-none of which can be attributed either to the difficulty or impracticability of the Enterprise itself
- CHAPTER VIII. Geographical outline of that part of the African Coast and Continent which is comprised between the Rivers Gambia and Grande
- with a brief notice of its southern Inhabitants, its Soil, and principal Animal and Vegetable Productions.
- CHAPTER IX. Of the Bijuga Islands, and Inhabitants
- CHAPTER X. Of the Island of Bulama
- its Produce-Animals-Climate
- CHAPTER XI. Advantageous position of the Country sketched in Chapter VIII for the purposes of Cultivation and Commerce-its Colonization proposed-Commodities intended to be there produced-how these might affect our West Indian possessions-what effect the Colonization of this Country might have on the African character, particularly with respect to Slavery-and how far it may conduce towards the introduction of Letters and Religion into that Country, as well as to a more accurate Knowledge of its i
- Note, on a French work on the subject of the western coast of Africa
- APPENDICES.
- No 1. Proposals of the Committee
- No 2. Memorandum of agreement, and Constitution of Government, for the Island of Bulama
- No 3. List of the Colonists, &c., who sailed from Gravesend
- No 4. List of the Colonists who remained with Lieutenant Beaver on the Island of Bulama
- No 5. Some account of the weather at Bulama
- No 6. Letter from Ghinala 2d August 1792
- No 7. Treaty between Lieutenant Beaver and the Kings of Ghinala and the Rio Grande, 3d August 1792
- No 8. List of the purchase goods of the Island of Bulama, &c. from the Biafaras