Evidence provided (as a summary) by men who had been working and living in Africa, questioned about their knowledge of the region; African slavery system which differed greatly from the European system;… 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
A defence of the slave trade for reasons of the wealth and power it affords Britain, and the natural disposition of Africans to the state of enslavement.
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
Gives a description of Cape Mezurado, which was colonised by the Americans and renamed Liberia: Their houses are remarkably neat. Their kitchens, which are a little elevated from the ground, are… Keep reading
Tract that investigates to what extent commerce drives the trade in Africans. He argues that the trade is immensely profitable, but questions whether it is right to sell humans, and suggests trading… 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
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
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
Proslavery tract supporting slavery from a religious, moral economical and philosophical standpoint: ‘the vast annual importation of slaves into our sugar colonies, proves to a demonstration that the number born there,… 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
