Talk:Robert Campbell (colonist)

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Robert Campbell

• ... that after failing to establish a colony for black Americans at Abeokuta Robert Campbell (pictured) founded the first newspaper in Lagos? "and the deterioration in Egba-British relations brought about by the British occupation of Lagos in August 1861 and an attempt to impose a British Counsul on Abeokuta in May 1862, forced Campbell to abandon his plan of returning to Abeokuta and to settle in Lagos" from p135 of: Blackett, R. J. M. (1975). "Return to the Motherland: Robert Campbell, a Jamaican in Early Colonial Lagos". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 8 (1): 133–143. ISSN 0018-2540. and "Robert Campbell later owned and edited the first locally published newspaper in Colonial Lagos, the Anglo-African" from: Smith, Robert S. (8 January 2021). The Lagos Consulate 1851 - 1861. Univ of California Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-520-32583-8.
  • ALT1: ... that Robert Campbell (pictured) emigrated from Jamaica to Nicaragua, Panama and the United States for economic reasons and to West Africa to found a settlement for black Americans? "The inadequate schoolmaster's salary and the growing economic and commercial distress in Jamaica forced Campbell to seek his fortune elsewhere, and in the early 1850s he took his family to Central America. But if Jamaica was bad, Central America offered nothing better, and after one year Campbell was on the move again, this time to New York... the Caribbean, Central America or Africa, would provide a homeland for blacks fleeing America ... Campbell arrived in Lagos in March 1862 with his wife and four children. For almost two years he had planned to return to Abeokuta and had purchased in America and Britain a cotton gin, a press and a number of other pieces of machinery with which the colony could build some economic base. But the outbreak of the Civil War in America effectively killed any interest among black Americans for an African colony" from p134-135 of: Blackett, R. J. M. (1975). "Return to the Motherland: Robert Campbell, a Jamaican in Early Colonial Lagos". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 8 (1): 133–143. ISSN 0018-2540. and "he went to Nicaragua and Panama in 1852" from: Shavit, David (1989). The United States in Africa – A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-313-25887-2.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 22:00, 8 November 2021 (UTC). QPQ:Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Seringapatam (1819)

• New article that was moved to mainspace on 8 November 2021‎‎‎‎‎ is 5,867 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (high confidence of violation due to book titles and proper names; AGF all refs re. any close paraphrasing issues, since none can go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 126 characters long (ALT1 is 169); both are under 200 character max. and are interesting. Ref 2 (verifying the hook and ALT1) is a reliable source from JSTOR (AGF as there is no preview available). QPQ done. Image is free and in the public domain. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 09:12, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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