The Bolama Experiment: An Abolition Attempt Gone Horribly Wrong

In 1792, a group of English abolitionists decided that the best way to show the world that the Atlantic slave trade was wrong was by creating a colony in Africa that would be run by the natives in the fashion of European plantations. Instead of triumph, they received yellow fever, cannibalism, death, destruction, and enslavement
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