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An Account of The Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, Classics To Go

Naval surgeon Alexander Falconbridge (1760–1792) authored one of the first pieces of published abolitionist propaganda detailing the human brutality of the transatlantic slave trade. Based on his first-hand experience working on slave ships, Falconbridge’s account supported the abolitionist argument that by its nature the trade was built on violence and inhumanity.

Alexander Falconbridge

Alexander Falconbridge (c. 1760–1792) was a British surgeon who took part in four voyages in slave ships between 1782 and 1787. In time he became an abolitionist and in 1788 published An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. In 1791 he was sent by the Anti-Slavery Society to Granville Town, Sierra Leone, a community of freed slaves, where he died a year later in 1792.

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