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.

Series:

Anthem advances in African cultural studies ; Volume 1.

Anthem Advances in African Cultural Studies ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beaver, Philip, 1766-1813--Travel--Guinea-Bissau--Bolama Island.

Beaver, Philip.

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)--Description and travel.

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau).

Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)--Colonization.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lvi, 393 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2023.

Summary:

In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766-1813) published his <i>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</i>. 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.

Contents:

Introduction; African Memoranda; Appendices: Reproduction of the Painting of Captain Philip Beaver RN by John Opie; Plan of the Ground Cleared and Enclosed, and of the Buildings Thereon erected at Bulama by Lieutentant Beaver' from African Memoranda; 'Plan of the Blockhouse or Fort' from African Memoranda; 'Plan of the Island of Bulama' from Wadstrom's Essay on Colonization; Nautical Map Intended for the Use of Colonial Undertakings on the West Coast of Africa' from Wadstrom's Essay on Colonization; Map of Africa' (1802) by A. Arrowsmith.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781839983412

1839983418

9781839983429

1839983426

OCLC:

1394117214