Everything about The Sierra Leone Company totally explained
The
Sierra Leone Company was the organisation involved in founding the first
African American colony in
Africa in
1792 through the resettlement of
Nova Scotian ex-
slaves who had initially been settled in
Nova Scotia after the
American Revolutionary War.
The Sierra Leone Company was the successor to the St George's Bay Company which had made a mostly unsuccessful attempt in
1787 to establish a free settlement for the '
Black Poor' of
London.
Both ventures were promoted by the anti-
slavery activist,
Granville Sharp who published a prospectus for the proposed company in
1790 entitled
Free English Territory in AFRICA. The prospectus made clear its
abolitionist view and stated that several respectable gentlemen had already subscribed had done so "not with a view of any present profit to themselves, but merely, through benevolence and public spirit, to promote a charitable measure, which may hereafter prove of great national importance to the Manufactories, and other Trading Interests of this Kingdom".
Amongst the early subscribers are many friends of Sharp involved in the
Clapham Sect:
Henry Thornton,
William Wilberforce, Rev.
Thomas Clarkson, Rev.
Thomas Gisbourne,
Samuel Whitbread
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