Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 617 g
Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 617 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
ISBN: 978-1-108-02086-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by English physician Thomas Winterbottom (1766–1859). In the 1790s he spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company (established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin colour as being absurd. In Volume 1 he draws a many-faceted picture of the climate, history and traditions of Sierra Leone, describing the limited diet of the inhabitants (consisting mainly of rice and palm oil), and seeking to give scientific answers to such questions as why the hair of the inhabitants is mostly of a 'woolly' type.
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Preface; 1. Division of the African coast; 2. Division of the year; 3. Agriculture; 4. Diet; 5. Situation of African towns; 6. Ordinary employments; 7. Amusements; 8. Government; 9. Situation of women; 10. Wars; 11. Trade; 12. Persons of the natives; 13. General characters of the Africans as given by different authors; 14. Religion; 15. Union of medicine with magic; Appendix; Index.
