Decades after leaving the trade, the clergyman who once commanded slave ships on the West African coast sets down what he saw: the cruelty to captives, the corruption of the sailors, the death rates on the voyage and the honesty of many Africans he lived among. Published in 1788, it was meant to support the growing campaign for abolition in Britain.
A short, searching confession and a key document of the British abolition movement. Download the free EPUB.