Anna Maria Falconbridge
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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.
[edit] External sources
- Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, During the Years 1791-1792-1793 (Full text, partial free access)
- Romanticism and Slave Narratives, by Helen Thomas
- "Trading in the blush": Domesticating the Colony in Anna Maria Falconbridge's Travel Narrative, by Sharon Harrow
- Biography of Alexander Falconbridge