SIERRA LEONE COMPANY ACT (1791). An Act for establishing a Company for carrying on Trade between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Coasts, Harbours and Countries of Africa; and for enabling the said Company to hold, by Grant from His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and from the Native Princes of Africa, a certain District of Land, commonly called The Peninsula of Sierra Leone, now vested in His Majesty, or belonging to the said Princes, for the better enabling the said Company to carry on the said Trade.

Edité par London: Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1791

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FOUNDING OF THE SIERRA LEONE COMPANY. Folio (11.5 inches). 31 George III, Chapter 55. General title leaf + pages 1551-1574. Royal coat of arms, headpiece ornament, and factotum initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. By this Act, the Sierra Leone Company was incorporated by some ninety-nine leading British abolitionists and supporters (all named in the Act, including Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Henry Thornton, and Sir Charles Middleton) to establish a colony at Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa. The main goals of the company were to help resettle displaced Black Loyalists, facilitate trade between Great Britain and Africa, promote cultivation of the land, advance civilization, diffuse morality, and induce attention to religion. The Black Loyalists were mostly former slaves of the American colonies who supported British forces and were freed by the British during the American Revolution, but were eventually forced to relocate to the colony of Nova Scotia after the American victory. The Sierra Leone Company was the successor to the St. Georges Bay Company that was founded in 1790 following an unsuccessful effort in 1787 to establish a free settlement for the Black poor of London, many of whom were also Black Loyalists. The first colony lasted less than three years, having been decimated by disease and abandonment. Both ventures were spearheaded by Granville Sharp, who made several attempts to gain a Royal Charter for the company. The Sierra Leone Company was to last for thirty-one years, and was prohibited from dealing in or employing slaves. Opposition to the plan from the slave trading lobby was intense, but the proposition made it through Parliament and quickly received approval as law. In 1792, John Clarkson (brother of Thomas Clarkson) led more than 1100 Black Loyalists from Halifax, Nova Scotia to establish the new colony and found the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone. But neither the company nor the colony prospered, and in 1807 the company was dissolved. The Sierra Leone Company objectives were continued by the African Institution (led by James Stephen and William Wilberforce) with the aim of creating a viable civilised refuge for Negro slaves in the wake of the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act, 1807. With the passing of the Sierra Leone Act, 1807 Sierra Leone officially became a Crown colony, with the land possessions of the Sierra Leone Company transferred to the Crown. The Crown colony of Sierra Leone continued in its founding principles of civilization, commerce, and Christianity.…

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SIERRA LEONE COMPANY ACT (1791). An Act for establishing a Company for carrying on Trade between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Coasts, Harbours and Countries of Africa; and for enabling the said Company to hold, by Grant from His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and from the Native Princes of Africa, a certain District of Land, commonly called The Peninsula of Sierra Leone, now vested in His Majesty, or belonging to the said Princes, for the better enabling the said Company to carry on the said Trade.
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BRITISH COLONIAL SLAVERY. Great Britain. Parliament.
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London: Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan
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1791
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