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A Geographical Survey of Africa - Its Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, States, Population, etc. (Paperback)
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A Geographical Survey of Africa - Its Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, States, Population, etc. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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James MacQueen (1778 1870) 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
better information and planning, European involvement in Africa
could be much more effective, and that the slave trade could be
better reduced by the work of missionaries and by increased trade
than by military intervention.
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