£23,000
The original working papers of Captain Philip Beaver’s African Memoranda (1805); around 90 original handwritten documents detailing how 275 British men, women and children attempted to settle the uninhabited island of Bulama in 1792 and were reduced to three in seventeen months. The documents cover the well-intentioned beginnings of Christian abolitionists in London to the blood-curdling reality of Britain’s first attempt at settling in West Africa. The Bulama records were transported in a tin box to London in 1793 and have barely seen the light of day since their rediscovery in 2020.
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