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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native: And a Vindication of the African Race

By James Africanus Beale Horton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1868
ISBN
9781108028592, 9780511983146
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27578827 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
Edition
Repr. 2011
Pages
\311
Time added
2021-07-03 01:29:22

Description

This book, first published in 1868, became the best-known work of medical officer and writer James Africanus Beale Horton (1835–1883), who was born in Sierra Leone to parents of Igbo descent. He was chosen by the British to train as an army medical officer and attended King's College, London, and Edinburgh University. He returned to West Africa and published his doctoral thesis, which was a medical topography of the region; subsequent works called for health reforms. West African Countries, however, went beyond medicine. In it Horton refutes the derogatory racial theories about Africans rife in Victorian Britain and its empire, and he examines the possibility of self-government and how it might function in Sierra Leone and other territories in West Africa, foreshadowing the decolonisation that took place almost one hundred years later. 01.0_pp_i_xii_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_xiii_xiv_Dedication 03.0_pp_xv_xvi_Contents 04.0_pp_xvii_xxiv_PREFACE 05.1_pp_1_11_DESCRIPTION_OF_THE_ORIGINAL_AND_UNCIVILIZED_STATE_OF_THE_NATIVE_TRIBES 05.2_pp_12_19_THE_ORIGIN_DANGERS_AND_PROGRESSIVE_DEVELOPMENT_OF_THE_LIBERIAN_REPUBLIC 05.3_pp_20_33_EXPOSITION_OF_ERRONEOUS_VIEWS_RESPECTING_THE_AFRICAN 05.4_pp_34_43_FALSE_THEORIES_OF_MODERN_ANTHROPOLOGISTS 05.5_pp_44_58_SOME_ANATOMICAL_ACCOUNTS_OF_NEGRO_PHYSIQUE 05.6_pp_59_68_THE_PROGRESSIVE_ADVANCEMENT_OF_THE_NEGRO_RACE_UNDER_CIVILIZING_INFLUENCE 06.1_pp_69_86_GENERAL_OBSERVATIONS_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_THE_GAMBIA 06.2_pp_87_103_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_SIERRA_LEONE_KINGDOM_OF_SIERRA_LEONE 06.3_pp_104_123_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_THE_GOLD_COAST 06.4_pp_124_135_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_THE_GOLD_COAST_KINGDOM_OF_FANTEE 06.5_pp_136_151_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_THE_GOLD_COAST_REPUBLIC_OF_ACCRA 06.6_pp_152_170_SELF-GOVERNMENT_OF_LAGOS_AND_ITS_INTERIOR_COUNTRIES_KINGDOM_OF_THE_AKUS 06.7_pp_171_198_EMPIRE_OF_THE_EBOES 07.1_pp_199_229_REQUIREMENTS_OF_SIERRA_LEONE 07.2_pp_230_242_REQUIREMENTS_OF_THE_GAMBIA 07.3_pp_243_268_REQUIREMENTS_OF_THE_GOLD_COAST 07.4_pp_269_272_REQUIREMENTS_OF_LAGOS_SOME_REMARKS_ON_THE_REPUBLIC_OF_LIBERIA 07.5_pp_273_278_CONCLUDING_REMARKS_ADVICE_TO_THE_RISING_GENERATION_IN_WEST_AFRICA 08.0_pp_279_287_INDEX

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