Article: Deirdre Coleman. Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery.(Book review)

Deirdre Coleman. Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery. Cambridge. Cambridge UP, 2005. xv + 273 pp. $75.00

In February 1787, ships carrying 440 people set sail from England bound for Sierra Leone. Those on board consisted mainly of black men, destitute former slaves rounded up from the ghettos of London the year before, together with a number of white women "of bad character." Their mission was to establish in Sierra Leone a self-governing colony, a "Province of Freedom," the success of which would ultimately put an end to the slave trade. As its title suggests, the way in which the discourses of colonization and anti-slavery overlapped and complemented ...

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