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Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s

AUTHOR: Deirdre Coleman (Editor)
ISBN: 0718501497
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In the 1780s in Britain, two very different places -- Sierra Leone and Botany Bay -- were mooted as possible sites for a penal colony. In the end, Botany Bay won the day and Sierra Leone became instead an experimental self-governing colony for...

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Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s
- Book Reviews, by Deirdre Coleman (Editor)

Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s

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Within two months of each other in 1791, two English women set sail with their husbands on relief missions to two recently established and far-flung British colonies, Botany Bay on the east coast of New Holland, and Sierra Leone, West Africa. Their narratives shed light on colonialism, gender, and the slave trade. Distributed by Continuum. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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