A Geographical Survey of Africa MacQueen Paperback Cambridge University Press

A Geographical Survey of AfricaIts Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, States, Population, etc.\nAuthor(s): James MacQueen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108031264, 978-1108031264\nSynopsis\nJames MacQueen [tel] was a British geographer and also one of the most outspoken critics of the methods of the British anti-slavery campaign in the 1820s and 1830s. Although he never visited Africa, he became an acknowledged expert on the continent, through reading all available accounts, ancient and modern, as well as interviewing slave merchants while managing a sugar plantation in the West Indies. This work was published in 1840, and was aimed at assisting the expansion of colonial trading interests. In the preface he is critical of the efficacy of British attempts to eradicate the slave trade, and also of the ill-preparedness and often fatal ignorance of many explorers. He believed that with bette.