SMITH, Robert S.2023-11-272023-11-2719780-333-24054-5https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/966Lagos in its consular period was the focus and meeting place of the activities of Europeans of varied callings and characters — administrators and officials, naval officers and ratings, traders, and Christian missionaries - and of the Sierra Leonean and Brazilian ‘emigrants’ or ‘liberated Africans , all impinging in their different ways on the society and politics of the indigenous inhabitants of the island kingdom. The book was written in Lagos but is based mainly on archival sources in London which were read during a part of two Long Vacations. The Foreign Office and Colonial Office material has been taken from the files in the Public Record Office, supplemented by extractsin British State Papers; the missionary material is from the printed journals, supplemented by the records of individual missionaries and files concerned with the Yoruba Mission.The Troubled Kingdom 1; The Reduction of Lagos 18; Before Campbell 34; To the Palaver Islands 49; Mr. Consul Campbell 66; The Iron Coffin 91; The Last Consuls 111; A Deadly Gift? 128.enBook