ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the Company conducted itself in the furtherance of its commitment to replace sixteenth-century mercantilism, and its endorsement of slavery, with ethical and restitutive economic policies. It describes the economic, political, and socio-religious strategies employed by the Company to promote restitutive justice in Sierra Leone between 1791 and 1807. The Sierra Leone Company presented itself to the natives as a company that valued their safety, livelihood, and socio-economic empowerment. On the strategic use of western education, the directors of the Company set for themselves the task of replicating the primary schools Jonas Hanway and his Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor had established in the 1770s in London. One positive outcome of the Nova Scotian rebellion was that it convinced the British government to grant the Company the right to adjudicate cases using English common law instruments.
