Writing from Philadelphia in 1771, the Quaker teacher Anthony Benezet gathers travellers’ accounts of the Guinea coast to show its peoples as industrious and humane, then sets out how Europeans kidnapped and bought them and what they suffered at sea and in the colonies. Extracts from Granville Sharp and others are appended.
A founding text of transatlantic abolitionism that influenced Thomas Clarkson and John Wesley. Download the free EPUB.