Title: Sweet water and bitter
First published: 2009
Description: When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible', asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, 'that a fountain should send forth both sweet water and bitter?' Could the slave trade be abolished from West Africa when West Africa was its source?
Subjects: Slavery, History, Slave trade, Slaves, Emancipation, Freedmen, Social conditions, Naval History, Great Britain. Royal Navy. African Squadron, Great Britain, Slave trade, great britain, Antislavery movements, great britain, Great britain, royal navy, Freed persons
LC classification: HT1323 .R44 2009