Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal (Anthem. Bolton, Brown**

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Captain Philip Beaver's African JournalAuthor(s): Carol Bolton, Christopher Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781839983405, 978-1839983405\nSynopsis\nIn 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver [tel] published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792. Beavers text in this modern scholarly edition provides an absorbing testimony of his efforts to assist British colonisers in establishing their African settlement. Despite the colonial ambitions of this project, the Bulama Committee members were reformists at heart. Their high-minded intentions in purchasing the island and settling it were to demonstrate the anti-slavery principle that propagation by free natives would bring cultivation and commerce to the region and ultimately introduce civilization among them. Beavers journal tells the extraordinary account o.