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Resources for the Falconbridge Workshop

We've organised the resources below into different categories, noting who has shared them in square brackets. If there are other resources you would like us to share, please e-mail Hanna Hodacs (h.hodacs@warwick.ac.uk) or David Lambert (d.lambert@warwick.ac.uk) and we'll add them too.

Please note that some resources are only available on campus.

Deirdre Coleman on Falconbridge:

Coleman, Deirdre, Maiden voyages and infant colonies : two women's travel narratives of the 1790s, London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1999, introduction (1-42) plus chronology (xv-xviii) .

Coleman, Deidre, Sierra Leone, Slavery and Secual Politic: Anna Maria Falconbridge and the "swarthy daugher of late 18th century abolitionism, Womens Writing, 2>1, pp. 3-23, 1995

Biographical

Christopher Fyfe, ‘Falconbridge , Anna Maria (b. 1769, d. in or after 1802?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/article/9105 (accessed 7 Nov 2013) [David Lambert]

Christopher Fyfe, ‘Falconbridge, Alexander (c.1760–1792)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/article/9104 (accessed 7 Nov 2013) [David Lambert]

Contemporary Maps

Some late 18th-century maps, http://www.sierra-leone.org/artifacts-maps.html [Hanna Hodacs]

Present-day Maps

Map showing locations visited by Falconbridge (using Google Maps) that I will annotate with locations from the text [David Lambert]

Late 18th and early 19th century writings on Sierra Leone

Falconbridge, Alexander, An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa, London : Printed and sold by James Phillips, 1788, 2nd ed.

Matthews, John, A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone on the coast of Africa [electronic resource] : containing an account of the trade and productions of the country and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people, London : Printed for B. White : J. Sewell, 1791.

Nordenskiöld, August, et al, Plan for a free community upon the coast of Africa [electronic resource] : under the protection of Great Britain ; but intirely independent of all European laws and governments : with an invitation, under certain conditions, to all persons desirous of partaking the benefits thereo 1754-1792, London : Printed by R. Hindmarsh, 1789.

Wadström, Carl Bernhard, An essay on colonization particularly applied to the western coast of Africa: with ... brief descriptions of the colonies ... in Africa, including those of Sierra Leona and Bulama, 1746-1799, London : Printed for the author by Darton and Harvey, 1794-1795.

Winterbottom , Thomas Masterman, An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them , 1803 (London : Printed by C. Whittingham) Part 1

Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them , 1803 (London : Printed by C. Whittingham) Part 2

Pictures from Fredrik Thomasson

1781 Smeathman termites
Afzelius's books not sold
1791 plan Freetown
1792 Afzelius accounts
1792 Afzelius garden salary list
1792 Afzelius land grant list
1792-3 Afzelius kitchen garden diary
1795 Johansen African house
1795 Wadström map
1795 Wadström map empty Africa
2012 Bananas Island Perth
2012 Bananas Island Smeathman
2012 Bananas Island Smeathman room
2012 Bananas Island termites
2012 Bananas Island termites canon
2012 Bunce Island board
2012 Bunce Island canon
2012 Bunce Island culture nature
2012 Bunce Island Historical Summary
2012 Bunce Island outer wall
2012 Bunce Island slave yard
2012 Bunce Island tombstone 1765 Capt Joseph Dor
2012 Freetown National Archives 1
2012 Freetown National Archives 2
2012 view Bananas Island

2012 Freetown National Archives captive Afrcans register