Sujet

Prospectus for: An essay on colonization, cultivation, commerce, in consequence of a voyage..., 1794 Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Prospectus for: An essay on colonization, cultivation, commerce, in consequence of a voyage, made with that view, to the western coast of Africa, 1794-12-08. Essay by C. B. Wadstrom. ...'Character and Disposition of the Africans...Colonies in Africa formed on the Principles of Commerce by the Portuguese...Spaniards...French...Dutch...Austrians...New Plan for exploring Africa, by the African Association in London...Description of the British Colony of Sierra Leone...'. A list of directors of the Sierra Leone Company includes abolitionists Henry Thornton MP, Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. The Sierra Leone Company took over the failed attempt by Sharp to create a colony for the settlement of freed slaves in Africa. The essay became an abolitionist classic that exposed not only the cruelties of slavery but also its economic disadvantages.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A18_429

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

136,2Mo (5,2Mo) / 46,7cm x 73,1cm / 5518 x 8630 (300dpi)

Mots clés

library commerce industry trade British color industrial text century Colonial empire Britain document company concept exploitation B&W slavery lettering public library MONOCHROME association Colour black & white black and white B W white and black 18th century Eighteenth Century New York Public Library NYPL heritage abolition African Association anti-slavery British Empire colonialism colonisation slave trade repatriation Unknown William Henry Sharp Granville Sharp William Wilberforce Wilberforce Thornton Granville Abolitionism resettlement cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art documents Henry Thornton Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Sierra Leone Company Carl Bernhard Wadstrom Wadstrom Carl Bernhard Carl Bernhard Wadstr?m Wadstr?m