Captain Philip Beaver''s African Journal

Captain Philip Beaver's journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Table of Weights and Measures; Introduction; Preface; Author's Introduction; Part I; Part II; Part III; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Carol Bolton is a senior lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Her research centres on Romantic-period writing that represents travel, exploration, and colonialism.

Summary

Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Bolton, Carol Brown Bolton
• Assisted by: Bolton (Editor), Carol Bolton (Editor), Bolton Carol (Editor), Christopher Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781839983405
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-340-5
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series; Anthem Africana Studies; Anthem Advances in African Cultural Studies; Anthem Advances in African Cul; Anthem Africology Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Travel > Travel guides > Africa; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, TRAVEL / Africa / West, Geographical discovery & exploration, West Africa, Travel and holiday, Diaries, letters and journals, Historical maps & atlases, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Romantic studies