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Title

Africa and her children / by the Rev. Thomas Sims, M.A. rector of St. Swithin's-upon-Kingsgate, Winchester.

Author

Sims, Thomas

Publication

[London] : Published by R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside: and sold by L. and G. Seeley, Fleet Street, London, MDCCCXL. [1840]

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Additional Authors

• R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, publisher.
• L. and G. Seeley, bookseller.
• W. Blanchard and Son, printer.

Description

xx, 116 pages; 18 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Ethnology > Africa
• Slave trade
• Enslaved persons > Emancipation > West Indies, British
• Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Colonies. > Great Britain
• Free Black people > West Indies, British
• Free Black people > Great Britain > Colonies
• Africa > Description and travel
• Great Britain > Commerce > Africa
• Africa > Commerce > Great Britain

Note

• "Entered at Stationer's Hall."--verso of title page.
• "London: Printed by W. Blanchard and Son, 62, Millbank Street, Westminster."--printer's statement, verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction: The slave-trade ; The middle passage ; African superstition ; Cannibalism ; Islamism ; Commerce ; Christianity -- sec. 1. Origin of nations ; Discover of America ; African slave-trade -- sec. 2. The evils of the slave-trade exposed ; The traffic abolished by Great Britain -- sec. 3. Increased traffic in slaves by foreigners ; Means suggested for improving the condition of Negroes in the state of slavery -- sec. 4. Free Negroes in the colonies: Grant of twenty millions sterling ; Emancipation of British colonial Negroes ; Effects of slavery ; Schools for adults ; Efforts by the Church of England ; Results of Christian instruction -- sec. 5. Free Negroes in the colonies: Education of the young in religious and useful knowledge -- sec. 6. Free Negroes in the colonies: Additional remarks on religious instruction and education -- sec. 7. Free Negroes in the colonies: Observations relative to Negro labour, and agricultural produce in the West Indies -- sec. 8. Western Africa: The Senegal ; The Gambia ; The Rio Grande -- sec. 9. Western Africa: Sierra Leone -- sec. 10. Guinea: The Grain Coast ; The Ivory Coast ; The Gold Coast ; The Slave Coast -- sec. 11. Central Africa -- sec. 12. Lower Guinea: Loango ; Congo ; Angola ; Benguela ; Sterile Coast -- sec. 13. South Africa: The Cape Colony ; Hottentots ; Kaffers ; and other tribes ; sec. 14. Eastern Africa: Portuguese settlements ; Botonga ; Mocaranga ; The Somaulis ; The Gallas ; Madagascar ; Mauritius ; Imaum of Muskat ; Pacha of Egypt ; Darfour ; Nubia ; Abyssinia ; Red Sea -- sec. 15. The Barbary States: Caravans of slaves ; Morocco ; Coast of Tafilet, &c. ; Tunis ; Tripoli ; The Tuarik ; Fezzan -- sec. 16. African languages and dialects -- sec. 17. Remarks on the education of the natives of Africa -- sec. 18. Commercial capabilities of Africa ; Tendency of lawful commerce with Africa to extinguish the slave-trade -- sec. 19. Corroborative and concurrent testimony of governors, &c. to the practicability and utility of the measures suggested -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-S (Sims, T. Africa and her children)

OCLC

26321387

Author

Sims, Thomas, author.

Title

Africa and her children / by the Rev. Thomas Sims, M.A. rector of St. Swithin's-upon-Kingsgate, Winchester.

Publisher

[London] : Published by R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside: and sold by L. and G. Seeley, Fleet Street, London, MDCCCXL. [1840]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-S (accession no. B389758) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-S has [2] page publisher's advertisement at end; listing other works by the author.

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Added Author

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, publisher.

L. and G. Seeley, bookseller.

W. Blanchard and Son, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-S (Sims, T. Africa and her children)