Reports from Select Committees on Free Labourers from the East, on the Slave Trade at the Mauritius, and on the Settlements of Sierra Leone and Fernando Po.
Contributors: Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Slave Trade at Mauritus.; Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Settlements of Sierra Leone and Fernando Po.
Series: British parliamentary papers, slave trade -- 1.; 1810-11 (225) -- vol. 2.; 1826 (430) -- vol. 3.; 1826 (90) -- vol. 6.; 1830 (661) -- vol. 10.; IUP library of fundamental source books
Publisher: Irish University Press; Irish Academic Pr
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Shannon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Sierra Leone -- History -- 19th century
Description: Facsimile reprint of originals ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1827 & 1830.

The main report in this volume on the Settlements of Sierra Leone and Fernando Po deals with the issue of the bettering of the conditions and prospects of liberated Africans. It examines the relations between white settlers, liberated Africans and the slaves in Sierra Leone and Fernado Po.