Falconbridge served as surgeon on four slaving voyages before he joined the abolitionists. In this short eyewitness account he describes how captives were bought on the African coast at Bonny and Calabar, packed below deck, fed, punished and sold in the West Indies, and records the terrible mortality among the enslaved and the seamen alike.
A primary source used in the British campaign against the slave trade, essential and harrowing reading. Download the free EPUB.