Investors, Captains, and Crew
African Slaves
Alexander Falconbridge wrote a book called An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Employed as a surgeon aboard various slave ships, Falconbridge had first-hand knowledge of many aspects of the slave trade, which he related in detail in his popular narrative. The book covered the trade from when the ships first acquired African captives along the African coast, through the treatment of these people during the Middle Passage, to the time they were sold into hereditary bondage in the West Indies. Popular with England’s abolitionists, Falconbridge later became governor of a new colony established for freed slaves at Africa’s Sierra Leone. This appointment was short-lived, however. Falconbridge was fired and died shortly thereafter.
