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John Clarkson is an agent for the Sierra Leone Company and governor of the newly founded settlement, Freetown. Alexander Falconbridge is the doctor sent by the company to work in Sierra Leone. However, Falconbridge is drunken, racist, and inept. After many months, his wife has now left him for a black man and he has decided to return to England. Falconbridge believes the settlement is doomed and cannot understand why Clarkson is determined to stay and try to make it work.
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START: JOHN CLARKSON: Mr. Falconbridge, should you wish to return to England then I shall not stand in your way.
FALCONBRIDGE: What are you doing, Mr. Clarkson? Has this man Peters finally corrupted your reasoning?
JOHN CLARKSON: Peters is no concern of mine. I am simply trying to run the colony along principles that I believe we promised the blacks.
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END: FALCONBRIDGE: But none coming out to join you. As a medical man, I can assure you that those who remain will soon be leaving for another world.
JOHN CLARKSON: If necessary, I am prepared to be the last white man in this part of Africa.
FALCONBRIDGE: I See. (Pause) I am sorry, Mr. Clarkson. Sorry for you and sorry for your family.
Caryl Phillips. Rough Crossings. Oberon Books, 2007. pp.114-117.
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