Anna Maria Falconbridge

Anna Maria Falconbridge

Anna Maria Norwood was born in Bristol, England, in 1769. She married Alexander Falconbridge, a prominent abolitionist, in 1788.

In 1791, she accompanied her husband to Sierra Leone, in a failed attempt to reorganize the settlement of freed slaves in Freetown. Disappointed, she did not share her husband's idealism and considered slavery to be a necessity.

Her husband died in 1792, after which she swiftly remarried and returned to England. She explained her experiences in a series of letters, later published as "Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, During the Years 1791-1792-1793".

External sources

* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102053180 Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, During the Years 1791-1792-1793] (Full text, partial free access)
* [http://www.rc.umd.edu/bibliographies/CUP/thomas/thomas4.html Romanticism and Slave Narratives, by Helen Thomas]
* [http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/harrow.html "Trading in the blush": Domesticating the Colony in Anna Maria Falconbridge's Travel Narrative, by Sharon Harrow]
* [http://www.understandingslavery.com/teachingslavetrade/introduction/keyhistorical/?page=3 Biography of Alexander Falconbridge]


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