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[SIERRA LEONE COMPANY] Substance of the Report of the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company to the General Court Held at London on Wednesday the 19th of October, 1791. To which is Added a Postscript.
London: James Phillips, 1792. First edition. Sewn in type-printed paper wrappers with title-page on upper cover. 6 1/4 x 4 inches (15.75 x 10 cm.); [2], 34 pp., woodcut cul-de-lampe. Wrapper lightly toned with dog-eared lower corner, dampstain to lower wrapper, central vertical soft crease, occasional offsetting from the type - a printer's error.
A pamphlet published in order to raise funds for the Sierra Leone Company - the corporate body behind the second British colony established in Sierra Leone. The company, established by a group of abolitionists and led by Grenville Sharp, was intended for the resettlement of Black Loyalists, mostly freed slaves who were impoverished after having been forced to relocate to England and Canada following the American Revolutionary War. The pamphlet contains a history of the settlements, notes about climate, population and agriculture, a plea for additional funding, and a section on the state of the slave trade in the area.
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