22. Joseph Tracy, A Historical Examination of the State of Society in Western Africa, as Formed by Paganism and Muhammedanism, Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Piracy, and of the Remedial Influence of Colonization and Missions, 5th ed. (Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1846). (40 p.)


History of attempts to colonize western Africa (Sierra Leone, Gambia, etc.), starting with the Portuguese enslavement of Africans in 1440.