Sierra Leone collection, 1792-1825.

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Clarkson, John, 1764-1828. Sierra Leone collection, 1792-1825.

Sierra Leone collection, 1792-1825.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54078357

The collection consists of items related to the British administration of Sierra Leone, including public and private papers of British officials in the colony of Sierra Leone, 1792-1825. The journal (March-August 1792) of Lt. John Clarkson, R.N. (1763-1828) founder of the Freetown settlement in Sierra Leone and the papers of Captain Edward Columbine (d. 1811), Royal Governor of Sierra Leone from 1809-1811, document the establishment and administration of the colony as well as the British attempt to suppress the West African slave trade. Geographic and ethnological descriptions of Sierra Leone and neighboring territories are provided in the reports kept by British envoys to the native chiefs, 1802-1806. The collection also includes the journal of Lt. George William Courtney, whose ship patrolled the west African coast from December 1823 to June 1825 seizing illegal slave vessels.

7 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC