First published in 1794, with a reprint in 1967, this book includes a succinct account of life along the River Sierra Leone. There is a description of the manners, diversions, arts, commerce, cultivation, punishments and other interesting particulars relating to the Sierra Leone Company. The state of the slade trade in the West Indies and the improbability of its total abolition at the time is also covered.

First published in 1794, with a reprint in 1967, this book includes a succinct account of life along the River Sierra Leone. There is a description of the manners, diversions, arts, commerce, cultivation, punishments and other interesting particulars relating to the Sierra Leone Company.

To Which Is Added, A Letter From The Author, To Henry Thornton. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

To Which Is Added, A Letter From The Author, To Henry Thornton. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's A Voyage Round the World (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization. Laying the texts alongside one another brings into conjunction Britain's concurrent, late-18th-century systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and slavery.