Institut d’Afrique

Institut d’Afrique was a Parisian organization pledged to the welfare of enslaved people. The book names it as one part of Thomas Beale’s life beyond his medical work, but provides no further account of its structure or activities.

Purpose and Setting

The organization’s stated purpose was the welfare of enslaved people, and its location was Paris. The account does not specify how it pursued that purpose or describe its membership beyond Beale.

Thomas Beale’s Connection

Beale joined Institut d’Afrique. The reference appears in a brief account of his life: he had worked for ten years as a medical assistant to the Royal Humane Society and later served as a poorly paid officer at Stepney Poor House. During the cholera epidemic of 1848–49, he cared for patients and contracted the disease himself.

Place in the Account

Institut d’Afrique is mentioned as evidence of Beale’s involvement in an organization devoted to the welfare of enslaved people. The book gives no further details about his role there, so the affiliation remains a concise biographical connection rather than a developed institutional portrait.