[Drop-head title:] Papers Relating to a Recruiting Depà t on the Coast of Africa, for the West India Regiments

9pp, [2]. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. The second located copy a series of dispatches relevant to the establishment of a British Army recruiting station at either Sierra Leone or Gorà e. Under the authority of the Prince Regent, Brevet Major Wingfield, of the 8th West India Regiment was charged with determining the most suitable location for the depot with the assistance of, inter alia, one sergeant and two corporals 'from every Black Regiment in the West Indies', and that 'such eligible Negroes as may be found amongst the cargoes captured under the Slave Abolition Act, should be appropriated to this service'. From the recently dispersed library (without any indication of such) of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair (1937-2021), and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade (2006). OCLC records a single copy (UWI); COPAC adds no further. Size: Folio. …