Sir Charles M’Carthy
British official
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association with Laing
- In Alexander Gordon Laing
…the region by the governor, Charles (later Sir Charles) M’Carthy, to attempt to develop trade in goods and to abolish that in slaves. He also visited the capital of the Susu people, Falaba, now in Sierra Leone. In 1823–24 Laing fought in the war between the British and the Asante…
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British colonialism in western Africa
- In western Africa: The British presence in Sierra Leone
…in chief at Freetown was Sir Charles M’Carthy, an active military man who thought that the most effective means of achieving Britain’s aims in western Africa was to extend its formal dominion over the most vexatious outlets for the slave trade. The home government for a time countenanced this policy…
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