Description

List of shareholders in the Sierra Leone Company, with a circular letter signed by J.R. Williams. The Company was founded in 1791 by Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, and others, to establish a colony on the west coast of Africa for runaway slaves who had found asylum in London. Fragments from printed documents, including: two appendices (lists of members of the Sierra Leone Company (4p. ; 1 sheet)) ; and a generic letter addressed to potential investors in the Sierra Leone Company, signed, "J.R. Williams, solicitor and secretary," "Sierra Leone House 29 March 1792" (1 sheet).

From Collection

Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection

Record Contributed By

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library