Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra... - 9781108020862

Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra LeoneTo which is Added, an Account of the Present State of Medicine among Them\nAuthor(s): Thomas Winterbottom\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108020862, 978-1108020862\nSynopsis\nSierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by English physician Thomas Winterbottom [tel]. In the 1790s he spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company (established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin colour as being absurd. In Volume 1 he draws a many-faceted picture of the climate, history and t.