William Vivour

Portrait of W.A Vivour

William Allen Vivour (fl. 1830-1890) was the single most successful 19th-century planter in Africa[1][2][3] due to his substantial and flourishing cocoa plantation in Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea).[1] He was the son of a recaptive of Yoruba ancestry from present day Lagos[4] and resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West Africa Squadron, and eventually settled in present day Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.

  1. ^ a b Sundiata, I. K. (1996). From Slaving to Neo-Slavery. The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 89–92. ISBN 0-299-14510-7.
  2. ^ Martin Kilson; Robert I. Rotberg (1976). The African diaspora: interpretive essays. Harvard University Press, University of Michigan. ISBN 978-0-674-0077-96.
  3. ^ I. K. Sundiata (1990). Equatorial Guinea: colonialism, state terror, and the search for stability (Nations of contemporary Africa, Westview Profiles Series). University of Michigan (Westview Press). p. 24. ISBN 978-0-813-3042-98.
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