, 1977, p. 18). There was concern among the British in India that the liberated African children placed in the care of Indian families would be influenced by Hinduism and Islam (Sullivan, 1967, p. 264); this explains the increase in the number of liberated Africans being delivered to the Seychelles after 1865 (Sullivan, 1967, p. 431). By 1869, the majority of liberated Africans were being landed in the Seychelles, with smaller numbers being delivered to the Universities' Mission to Central Africa at Mbweni, Zanzibar (Al-Maamiry, 1985,