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D’une administration privée au contrôle de la Couronne: Expérimentation et adaptation en Sierra Leone à la fin du XIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle

This chapter draws on archival sources in national and international collections to analyse the origins of Britain’s first significant African colony. Sierra Leone provides an early example of how slave trade suppression and the promotion of ‘legitimate’ trade drew Europeans into greater metropolitan interference in African affairs at a time when there was only very limited colonial occupation by Europeans. By emphasising the close interconnections between ‘Commerce, Civilization and Christianity’, the Sierra Leone Company (1791-1807) anticipated the ‘New Africa’ policy of Thomas Fowell Buxton in 1839 and set the agenda for early Victorian debate on the regeneration of Africa.