Richard Oswald (merchant)
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Richard Oswald was a Scottish merchant, slave trader, and diplomat. During the American Revolution, he served as an advisor to the North ministry on trade regulations and the best way to respond to th
portrait by William Denune
Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), shows the American commissioners who negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Temple Franklin is on the right. Left of him are Henry Laurens, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay. The British commissioners did not pose for West, and the picture was never finished.
Signature page of the Treaty of Paris.
Mary Oswald, portrait by Johann Zoffany
Bunce Island
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Bunce Island is an island in the Sierra Leone River. It is situated in the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about 20 miles upriver from Sierra Leone's capital city Freetown. The island
A satellite picture of Freetown, 2006.
Bunce Island in 1726 during the period of the Royal African Company
Bunce Island in 1805 during the period of John & Alexander Anderson
Looking north to Bullom Shore from Voyages to the River Sierra Leone by John Matthews, 1788