This article chronicles the construction of the first permanent foreign settlement on the West African island of Fernando Po (today called Bioko) as part of the British effort to suppress the slave trade in the 1820s. The settlement ended centuries of relative isolation by the indigenous Bubi who hitherto had successfully navigated between occasional trade with outsiders and repelling slave traders. Although British plans ultimately failed, the settlement remained, as did a large portion of the settlers. This article argues that the disruptive power of suppression created the conditions for a colonial shift toward integration of the island into the larger Euro–West African world. While the settlement's influence grew in the short term through its successful leveraging of economic and military resources, it was the landing of liberated slaves that would have the greatest long-term significance, and highlights the (often unintentional) connection between antislavery and imperialism.

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反奴隶制和帝国主义：英国对奴隶贸易的镇压和费尔南多·波的开放，1827-1829 年

本文记录了在西非费尔南多波岛（今天称为比奥科岛）上建造第一个永久外国定居点的过程，这是英国在 1820 年代镇压奴隶贸易的努力的一部分。该定居点结束了土著 Bubi 几个世纪以来的相对孤立，他们迄今为止成功地在与外来者的偶尔贸易和击退奴隶贩子之间成功地游刃有余。尽管英国的计划最终失败了，但定居点仍然存在，大部分定居者也是如此。本文认为，镇压的破坏性力量为该岛向更大的欧洲-西非世界一体化的殖民转变创造了条件。虽然该定居点的影响力在短期内通过成功利用经济和军事资源而增长，