Anna Maria Falconbridge’s diary, Narrative of Two Voyages to the River
Sierra Leone, fascinated me as well. In many ways her journal is one of the first ethnographies of the Temne people of
Sierra Leone. I decided to add the context of her story that she has left out, and to include appropriate segments from other
sources—John Clarkson’s diary (he was the first governor of Freetown), Isaac Dubois' diary (whom Anna Maria
eventually married)—and pull all the other loose ends together and present them here in lieu of publication.
Her diary is divided into letters written to a supposed friend in Bristol, England.
To
read each letter in turn, click on the Letters listed below.
