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  • REPORT ON A RECENT VISIT TO THE COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE

  • Hannah Kilham
  • Book:
    Writings on Education in West Africa
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    21 October 2010, pp 1-24
    First published in:
    1828

  • Summary

    To the Committee for African Instruction, and other Friends concerned in promoting its objects.

    Although gratefully sensible of the obligations under which I am placed toward Friends, who have kindly favoured my desire to visit the Coast of Africa, I yet feel so deeply impressed with the conviction that the cause itself only, is worthy of notice in this Report, that most gladly would I lose sight of my own individual engagement in it, only to acknowledge that Infinite Mercy, by which an unworthy servant has been protected and sustained: preserved and restored from sickness by land, and delivered from the dangers of an awful storm at sea, when the waves seemed ready to overwhelm, and ourselves as at the very gate of death. And thankfully would I acknowledge also, the deep sense with which my mind has been impressed, of the little moment of all transitory sufferings or enjoyments, in comparison of the concerns which we shall feel to be of everlasting interest, in that swiftly approaching hour when we shall each have to stand as alone before our Judge.

    We were favoured, after a rapid passage to Sierra Leone, with a safe and pleasant landing, on First day morning, the 9th of 12th month, 1827.

  • THE CLAIMS OF WEST AFRICA TO Christian Instruction, THROUGH THE NATIVE LANGUAGES

  • Hannah Kilham
  • Book:
    Writings on Education in West Africa
    Published online:
    07 September 2011
    Print publication:
    21 October 2010, pp 25-54
    First published in:
    1828

  • Summary

    THE CLAIMS OF WEST AFRICA, &c.

    The colony of Sierra Leone, interesting and important as it is, when regarded as a station inhabited by Africans from more than thirty different tribes, has not yet, it must be allowed, exhibited all those encouraging marks of advancement, either in civil or religious knowledge, which have been anxiously desired, and which indeed are still hoped for by many who look to this colony as a point from which, through the favour of Divine Goodness, may one day be extended the blessings of civilization and Christian instruction to many nations on the wide and almost unexplored continent of Africa.

    This station having been formed and maintained on a principle of benevolent concern for the good of Africa, and as a place of reception for the unhappy victims of cruelty and oppression, when rescued from the slave-ships, presents a very peculiar and a very powerful claim to our interest and regard; and the enquiry ought to be fairly met as to what really is its present state, and what the impediments to its more rapid advancement.

    If from feelings of individual compassion a Christian philanthropist had rescued from the hold of a slave-ship one helpless child, and placed it under care for shelter and instruction, would he not feel so much interest for his rescued charge, as fully to inform himself from time to time how the child was cared for and instructed?—whether its physical wants as to food, shelter, and medical care were suitably provided for, and its mind receiving the advantages of appropriate instruction and judicious Christian care?

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