His wife wrote, I will not be guilty of such meanness as to tell a falsehood on this occasion, by saying I regret his death, no! I really do not. His conduct to her, she...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Maria Falconbridge
The final section of AMF
's book is a rousing polemic against the Sierra Leone Company
for its shabby treatment of herself and her late first husband. She uses as collateral evidence their alleged misuse...
politics
Anna Maria Falconbridge
Within a few days her husband had received new instructions from the Sierra Leone Company
, contradicting those he had set out with. He concluded the company had used juggle and chicane to entice him...
politics
Anna Maria Falconbridge
AMF
's political opinions were far from fixed and settled, either during her anti- or her pro-slavery period. Little more than a week after her first husband's death her opinions were evidently shifting: she wrote...
Timeline
January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...
National or international item
January 1792
A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson
, brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.