with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
Projekt: Bestände der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
LDP: Bestände der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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Chapter I. Proceedings of the Committee of a Society for establishing a Colony on the Western Coast of Africa, from the Period of its Institution, till the Departure of the Colonists from England
African Memoranda. II for three months; and the cutter was insured to the amount 1702. of four hundred pounds for twelve months. NtohY Subscribers of every description were permitted to carry out two servants, and one additional one, for every 500 acres of land subscribed for, after the first. Some of the subscribers appearing to be turbulent, dis- 6th. contented people, the council returned them their subscription money, and erased their names from the list of subscribers. The constitution was this day signed by every person who 9th intended to become a settler.* The committee which had been appointed to examine, and 10th finally accept, or reject those persons who had offered themselves to go out as labourers to the association, agreeable to the terms of the proposals, made their report, by which it appeared that they had accepted 28 men, 13 of whom had wives; and that they had altogether 29 children. A surveyor was appointed on the same terms as the surgeon, 12th. and an assistant surveyor! on the same terms as the assistant surgeon. Every thing being now nearly on board, and the vessels 21st. reported ready to drop down the river, the labourers were embarked on the morn of the 21st but it was the eve of the 26th before the Hankey sailed for Gravesend, when those 26th. members of the council and subscribers, who had not already em barked were to meet there, and instantly proceed on the voyage. The trustees having been originally appointed to receive the * See Appendix, N° II. + Lieutenant Yates of the R. Navy who did not go out.—The surgeon and assistant surgeon engaged to remain two years on the island, (their health permitting it) or for feit their land. c 2