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Title:Continuing British Interest in Coastal Guinea-Conakry and Fuuta Jaloo Highlands (1750 to 1850)
Author:Mouser, Bruce L.ISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:43
Issue:172
Pages:761-790
Language:English
Geographic terms:Guinea
Great Britain
Subjects:colonial conquest
mercantile history
history
1700-1799
1800-1899
colonialism
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
External link:https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.2265
Abstract:Before the imposition of French rule over the coast of Guinea-Conakry and Fuuta Jaloo in the second half of the 19th century, British traders and Britain itself had considered the region to be within their sphere of influence and perhaps expected it to become British territory, if it were to be absorbed by a European power. This paper traces the activities of British investment interests from the mid-18th century, from the early phase through the Sierra Leone Company interest around 1800, British colonial interest, and American initiative in the 1820s and 1830s, to the final phase of the 1840s. It discusses the methods used to maintain dominance over competing ventures and details official British governmental efforts to establish colonial posts along this coast and direct linkages with leaders of Fuuta Jaloo. Whatever the consequences of these attemps, British officials were keenly aware of the region's importance to British commercial success in West Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited]
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