1 Stanford’s Map of the Guinea Coast West Africa 1873 (section of). British Library Maps 64990 (7). © The British Library Board XX
2 John Beckett, view of the colony of Sierra Leone previous to the transports being discharged, March 16, 1792, Nova Scotia Museum, Marine History Collection, M2008.38.1 (cropped), by kind permission 14
3 Clapham Common 1815, adapted from a drawing in Margaret Bryant, The Clapham Sect (London: The Clapham Society, 2004), by kind permission 31
4 Rectory House, Rectory Grove, Clapham c.1850. Lambeth Archives (London) #749, by kind permission 36
5 Marriage certificate of Sarah Winsor and Peter Hartwig 25 January 1804, London Metropolitan Archives, City of London. P95/TRI1/109 (the church of Holy Trinity Clapham), by kind permission 45
6 A View of Freetown from the River Sierra Leone, watercolour by W.A. Bowles, in Thomas Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, I, London: Hatchard, 1803. British Library W70/5217. © The British Library Board 58
7 Freetown original layout (section of), Sierra Leone Anchorage surveyed by Commr H.E. Purey Cust R.N. and the Officers of H.M.S Rambler 1899. British Library Maps SEC. 11.(616). © The British Library Board 59
8 Settler house on the outskirts of Freetown, 2011, author’s photograph 63
9 Bance Island in the Sierra Leone River, Corry/Stadler 1807. British Library Images Online 148.d.9. © The British Library Board 170
10 Negresses of Sierra Leone. Illustration in Francis Spilsbury, Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa; Performed by His Majesty’s Sloop Favourite, in the Year 1805, London: Periodical Publications, A Collection of Modern Voyages etc, 6, 1807. British Library P.P.3904.h. © The British Library Board 173
11 Land certificate in the name of Grace Pool, Halifax 31 Dec. 1791. British Library Add MS 41262A, no. 47 © The British Library Board 175
12 Map of Part of the Western Coast of Africa. Frontispiece to Samuel Walker, Missions in Western Africa, Among the Soosoos, Bulloms, &c: Being the First Undertaken by the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (Dublin: James Curry, 1845), SOAS University of London, by kind permission 187
13 The Colony of Sierra Leone. Frontispiece to Religious Tract Society: Missionary Records: West Africa (London: Religious Tract Society, c. 1836), SOAS University of London, by kind permission 266
14 Part of Regent’s-Town, a Settlement of Liberated Negroes, in the Colony of Sierra Leone. Missionary Register 1821, 126 268
15 Gloucester Church, 2011, author’s photograph 293
16 Silhouette–Susanna Klein. CMS: ACC534 Z1. Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 301
17 Silhouette–Jonathan Salomon Klein and John Godfrey Wilhelm. CMS: ACC534 Z2. Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 301
18 Part of Sarah’s letter from Freetown dated 23 March 1805 (CMS: E1/9). Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 406
19 Part of Sarah’s letter from Freetown dated 11 March 1815 (CMS: E4/83). Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 406
20 Part of Elizabeth’s letter to Mrs Pratt from Bashia dated 21 June 1815 (CMS: E4/128). Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 414
21 Susanna’s letter from Kakara 22 July 1812 (CMS: E3/10). Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham, by kind permission 422