Experiments in emancipation
In parallel with their campaign for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade the abolitionists, in Europe and North America, concerned themselves with the plight of runaway or freed slaves, many of whom were destitute.
How could they be helped towards a secure future?
The mixed fortunes of two experimental settlements on the West African coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia, illustrate the results of these efforts.
In this exhibition
- First European encounters
- Slavery and anti-slavery
- Towards emancipation
- Experiments in emancipation
- The Sierra Leone Company
- Sierra Leone as colony
- Investment and prosperity
- Liberia
- South Africa: early European settlement
- South Africa: diamonds, gold and bloodshed
- Interior exploration of Africa
- The scramble for Africa
- Africa under European rule
- I speak of Africa
- Select bibliography