Snelgrave, a London slaving captain, describes the Dahomean conquest of Whydah in the 1720s, the conduct of the slave trade on the Guinea coast and revolts aboard his ships, and his own capture by pirates. Written to defend the trade to the merchants of London, it records its brutality from the perpetrator’s side.
A disturbing primary source on the Atlantic slave trade, read today as evidence of what its practitioners believed and did. Download the free EPUB.