Essays: I. On the populousness of Africa - II. On the trade at the forts on the Gold Coast - III. On the necessity of erecting a fort at Cape Appolonia; ill. with a new map of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Kingdom of Angola

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Title:	Essays: I. On the populousness of Africa - II. On the trade at the forts on the Gold Coast - III. On the necessity of erecting a fort at Cape Appolonia; ill. with a new map of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Kingdom of Angola
Author:	Hippisley, John
Year:	1764
Pages:	65
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	T. Lownds
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Ghana Great Britain
Subjects:	colonization slave trade fortifications
Abstract:	'My first intention was only to set forth the importance of the trade at Cape Appolonia, and the prospect of its being greatly improved and enlarged by having a Fort at that place. But, when this was done (...) there seemed to be a necessity, in order to complete the subject, to say something of the use of forts in general, and the advantage the publick receives from the trade carried on at them. This produced the second of these essays (...). The inquiry concerning the populousness of Africa sprung from the others; for having proposed an establishment which was to inlarge the slave trade, one difficulty seemed to arise, namely, how that trade could bear being pushed further, which, even as it hitherto has been carried on, is the astonishment of everybody' (p. II-III).