Captain Philip Beaver's African journal / edited by Carol Bolton and Christopher Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaver, Philip, 1766-1813, author.

Contributor:

Bolton, Carol, editor.

Brown, Christopher, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Anthem nineteenth century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beaver, Philip, 1766-1813--Diaries.

Beaver, Philip.

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)--Colonization--Sources.

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau).

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)--Colonization.

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

No 9. Extracts from the ship Hankey's log, to show that that ship was not sickly on her return to England, nor had been so for months before

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Print version: Bolton, Carol Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal

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1839983426

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