Scope: An rfrf? Discusses effects of the trade on Africans and Europeans ? Examination of the evils of slavery, including ill treatment of sailors, short life expectancy due to disease etc. Keep reading
Scope: An anonymous West India planter presents his arguments for the continuance of slavery in the Caribbean and why the trade should not be abolished Content: ? Presents a detailed… Keep reading
Response to Considerations on the Emancipation of Negroes and the abolition of the slave trade by a west India planter (anti slavery tract) Keywords: slavery/slave trade/emancipation/sugar/planter/plantation
It has also been pretended that they [Africans] are of lower intellectual abilities that the rest of mankind…But this is absolutely false – God made of one blood all the sons of… Keep reading
A Negro woman was imported amongst a cargo of slaves from Anamaboa about the year 1772. In the latter end of the year 1773, her brother, named Quashy, who is well known… Keep reading
A criticism of the flagrant disregard and inefficiency of the laws set up in the Caribbean to protect the enslaved from cruelty and murder by planters, and a medical report by a… Keep reading
One would think from the evidence at the bar, and from the arguments of the counsel upon it, that the solid pestilence, the thick contagion, the substantial rottenness of an African ship… Keep reading
Evidence gathered by Clarkson cataloguing instances of cruelty and arguing that abolition would be more effective than regulation Clarkson’s essay, submitted as evidence against the continuation of the slave trade contains accounts… Keep reading
A series of questions put to Dr Thomas Cochrane, who had spent 14 years in the West Indies, having the charge of 5-6000 enslaved Africans. His answers are interesting because they seem… Keep reading
The author had occasion to witness the system of slavery as practices by the French and Portuguese as well as the British, looking at the following themes: ? How the enslaved… Keep reading
? Reasons why the slave trade doesn’t work from an economic standpoint ? Reasons why it makes more sense to cultivate a good commercial relationship with Africans, which will be more… Keep reading
A number of letters written by Hay to an unidentified recipient on his observations of African and European Barbadians, and on the slavery system there. There are also a series of letters… Keep reading
