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| Title: | Governor John Clarkson's Diary and the Origins of Sierra Leone |
| Author: | Sbacchi, Alberto |
| Year: | 1978 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | Spring |
| Pages: | 55-78 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
| Subjects: | slavery colonists freedmen History and Exploration colonialism |
| Abstract: | This study explores the motives behind the slave trade, the forces that worked their way to abolish it, and the sincerity of the efforts made by the white people to suppress it. It is in this context that the story of the three settlements at St. George Bay, Flora Bay, and Freetown, although little known, is reconstructed from the diaries of the first governor John Clarkson, the reports of the Sierra Leone Company, and other eyewitness accounts. Notes. |