The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc.

ISBN-13: 9781138010901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 468 str.

Claude George

Opis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRECEDING CHAPTER It should have clearly appeared from the report of the Committee of Parliament that the Sierra Leone Company was free from all charge of mismanagement, or of abuse of privilege. If the Directors felt themselves unable to continue to control the destiny of Sierra Leone, it was not due to any unwillingness or inactivity on their part, but to inability; and this they were not slow to report. All that could have been done, or even had been done in history, by a private institution was done by the Company for the Colony. It was enough that it had borne the expense of settling the Nova Scotians and the Maroons, and had given them an impetus to carry them a long way off--as long as should have enabled them by means of their natural strength, to have pushed forward to the goal. More than this was truly heroic. And when they went further still, and promised to continue their patronage, if only a parliamentary grant of 10,000 annually could be made them, their heroism was carried to such an extravagant height as, in this century, would be considered fabulous or, at best, romantic. But it was nevertheless a fact--a fact not less incontrovertible than the retreat from Moscow, or the defeat at Waterloo. If the British nation of to-day boasts her philanthropy, it was because the Sierra Leone Company, as part and parcel of the nation, had set her an example of philanthropy to copy. But with this report the bitterness of death was not, surely, yet passed. By it the British nation was placed in a dilemma-- an awful one, too--" Should Sierra Leone be evacuated, or should she not be?" Thus poised the fate of our Colony upon an even balance between 1804 and 1807. It is quite impossible to imagine the anxiety of the c...

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1a History of African Slavery; Chapter 1 Discovery and Description of Sierra Leone; Chapter 2 A French Invasion; Chapter 3 The Settlers’ Rising; Chapter 4 Events of 1800; Chapter 5 The Temne Risings; Chapter 6 The Bananas Islands; Chapter 7 The Sierra Leone Company; Chapter 8 Subsequent History of the Sierra Leone Company, 1791–1807; Chapter 9 Observations on the Preceding Chapter; Chapter 10 Fortifications of the Colony—Treaties and Conventions; Chapter 11 A Brief Sketch of the Constitution Down to 1807; Chapter 12 The African Institution, 1808–1827; Chapter 13 Commission of Inquiry into the State of the Settlement, 1810; Chapter 14 Some Important Events; Chapter 15 St. George’s Church; Chapter 17 Various Elements in the Population of the Colony; Chapter 18 Financial Condition of the Civil Establishment; Chapter 19 Disbandment of the Third and Fourth West India Regiments; Chapter 20 Table Allowance to Governor; Chapter 21 Postal Communication Between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom; Chapter 22 Uniforms of Colonial Governors and Other Superior Officers of the Civil Establishment; Chapter 23 The Quaia and the Port Locco Expeditions; Chapter 24 Bance Island; Chapter 25 Appointment of Major-General Sir Neil Campbell; Chapter 26 Settlements on the Gambia; Chapter 27 The Settlements on the Gold Coast; Chapter 28 Report of Inquiry into the State of the Settlement, 1826; Chapter 29 The Villages or Liberated African Towns; Chapter 30 Agriculture; Chapter 31 Constitution and Government; Chapter 32 Education; Chapter 33 Religion; Chapter 34 The Climate of Sierra Leone;

O autorze

Claude George