The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc., Etc. with a Brief Account of Climate, the Growth of Education, Commerce and Religion and a Comprehensive History of the Bananas and Bance Islands and Sketches of the ConstitutionHoulston & Sons, 1904 - 468 pages |
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... necessary taxation by education and experience , the levying of a tax , however light and necessary , simply brought before them , with clear vividness , associations of the harrow , the plough , and the sugar - cane . In connection ...
... necessary taxation by education and experience , the levying of a tax , however light and necessary , simply brought before them , with clear vividness , associations of the harrow , the plough , and the sugar - cane . In connection ...
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... necessary arrangements with the Government of Nova Scotia for settling the Maroons , informed His Excellency Robert Prescot , then Governor- General of Halifax , that although they had not yet absolutely fixed on the place for the ...
... necessary arrangements with the Government of Nova Scotia for settling the Maroons , informed His Excellency Robert Prescot , then Governor- General of Halifax , that although they had not yet absolutely fixed on the place for the ...
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... necessary present , which , in native idiom , or as Caulker interpreted it , was intended " to stop his mouth . " This letter of Mr. Gray's actually flattered Caulker's vanity , if ever anything did , and put him in such high glee ...
... necessary present , which , in native idiom , or as Caulker interpreted it , was intended " to stop his mouth . " This letter of Mr. Gray's actually flattered Caulker's vanity , if ever anything did , and put him in such high glee ...
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... necessary , so as to be endowed with legal authority and jurisdiction over a popula- tion teeming with some 1,100 Blacks , some Natives of Africa , a few European settlers , and nearly 600 Maroons who were then migrating into the ...
... necessary , so as to be endowed with legal authority and jurisdiction over a popula- tion teeming with some 1,100 Blacks , some Natives of Africa , a few European settlers , and nearly 600 Maroons who were then migrating into the ...
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... necessary to reduce the commercial transactions of the Company and limit them within reasonable distance from Free Town proper , remov- ing them from the interior of the country , where there was general insecurity from the attitude of ...
... necessary to reduce the commercial transactions of the Company and limit them within reasonable distance from Free Town proper , remov- ing them from the interior of the country , where there was general insecurity from the attitude of ...
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Accra administration afforded African Company African Institution appear appointed arrival Ashantis Bananas Bance Island Bathurst buildings Bullom Cape Coast Captain Charles Macarthy Charter Chief Justice Church Missionary Society Civil Establishment civilisation climate Coast of Africa colonists Colony of Sierra command Commission Commissioners Company's considerable Court of Directors Crown cultivation duties effect England erection European expedition Free Town French Fulas Gambia Gold Coast Governor and Council granted Hundredors inhabitants King Firama labour land Liberated Africans Lieutenant-Colonel Macaulay Majesty Majesty's Government Majesty's Treasury Mandingoes Maroons Mayor's Court ment merchants miles military Negroes Neil Campbell Nova Scotians object officers persons Portuguese possession received resident respect River Royal African Corps Senegal settlement Settlers Sherbro Sierra Leone Company Sir Charles Macarthy Sir Charles Turner Sir Neil Campbell situation slave trade soil Stephen Caulker superintendent Temnes Thomas Caulker tion treaty troops vessels villages West
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Page 394 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 393 - Clinton, full power and authority to order and appoint fairs, marts, and markets, as also such and so many ports, harbours, bays, havens, and other places for the convenience and security of shipping and for the better loading and unloading of goods and merchandises as by you, with the advice and consent of our said Council, shall be thought fit and necessary.
Page 129 - free community of settlers, their heirs, and successors, lately arrived from England, and under the protection of the British Government...
Page 239 - Town, the capital of the peninsula, is of considerable extent, and is beautifully situate on an inclined plain at the foot of some hills on which stand the fort and other public buildings that overlook it and the roads, whence there is a delightful prospect of the town, rising in the form of an amphitheatre from the water's edge, above which it is elevated about seventy feet. It is regularly laid out into fine streets, intersected by others parallel with the river and at right angles. The houses,...
Page 392 - An Act for amending, explaining and reducing into one Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Ships, vessels and forces by Sea...
Page 347 - Macarthy gave up apprenticing, except in particular cases, and adopted the plan of forming them into villages, under such civil superintendence and religious instruction as he could command, keeping the youths and children in schools, or making mechanics of them, neglecting perhaps too much, in his successful attempt to make them orderly and quiet citizens, the equally desirable object of making them industrial agriculturists and growers of exportable produce.
Page 108 - ... self-interest, and who desire nothing so much as their improvement and happiness. ' To conclude, they have established, in a central part of Africa, a colony, which appears to be now provided with adequate means both of defence and subsistence ; which, by the blessing of Providence, may become an emporium of commerce, a school of industry, and a source of knowledge, civilisation, and religious improvement to the inhabitants of that continent ; and which may hereafter repay to Great Britain the...
Page 234 - October"' be struck out, and the words " upon the 29th day of January" be inserted. That in the prayer found in this service for the king and royal family, the words " their royal highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and,
Page 346 - Colony, without any superintendence than its general police. Captain Columbine employed them on the Public Works or apprenticed them. Colonel Maxwell, after delivering over to the persons appointed to receive them all the men fit for His Majesty's Service, apprenticed a part of the remainder, and then commenced forming villages with those who could not be disposed of. Sir Charles...
Page 107 - ... even as judicial assessors. They have in some measure retrieved the credit of the British, it may be added, of the Christian name, on the continent of Africa ; and have convinced its inhabitants, that there are Englishmen who are actuated by very different motives from those of self-interest, and who desire nothing so much as their improvement and happiness. To conclude, they have established in a central part of Africa, a colony, which appears to be now provided with adequate means both of defence...