Observations on the slave trade and a description of some part of the coast of Guinea, during a voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain Arrehenius — John Shaqi
Observations on the slave trade and a description of some part of the coast of Guinea, during a voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain ArreheniusWadström, Carl Bernhard
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Observations on the slave trade and a description of some part of the coast of Guinea, during a voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain Arrehenius
Wadström, Carl Bernhard
Guinea -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Early works to 1800
The Author has lately published TWO VIEWS of the COAST of GUINEA,
with separate Descriptions, embellished with four small Prints.—In
these Views are introduced some historical facts related in this
pamphlet, pages 9, 11, & 12. The size 22 inches by 17, and the
price 15s.—His view, in undertaking to publish them, was more
essentially to serve the cause of humanity, and he has therefore
offered them at the same price which they cost him, not wishing
to have any emolument from this sale.—They are to be had of the
Author, No. 6, in the Poultry; at Mr. J. Phillips’s, George-Yard,
Lombard-Street; Mr. B. Evans, Printseller, in the Poultry; Mr. S.
Walter, Homer’s Head, Charing-Cross; Mr. W. Dickinson, Printseller,
No. 158, New-Bond-Street; Mess. Robson and Clarke, New-Bond-Street;
and Mr. B. Chastanier, No. 62, Tottenham-Court-Road.
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ERRATUM.
Page 13, Line 16, for lum, read Salum.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The treatment the sex experience from the white traders on all
occasions, is such, as decency forbids me to describe.
[2] Since my arrival in London, this horrid practice has been
authenticated by the respectable authority of several French gentlemen.
[3] A remarkable and well authenticated proof of the above interesting
fact will be given at the end of this little tract.
[4] The marabous are the chief priests among the negroes, and are the
only people who can read and write Arabic.
[5] By LUXURY, I understand, all enjoyments beyond the necessaries of
mere animal life. Consequently to live in a civilized community is
already a sort of luxury; and if the cultivation of our understanding
be necessary, we ought also to be indulged in the use of a word which
is now so generally abused.
[6] It is worthy of remark, that since wine was substituted for the
brandy, which till within these last three years was served out to the
French troops on the coast, they have been incomparably healthier.
[7] The first considerable exportation of cotton and indigo from the
Coast to Europe, as far as I have been informed, was made in the year
1787, while I was at Goree, by a Frenchman, who had resided some time
in that island.
[8] The mineralogical observations made by my fellow-traveller, Capt.
Arrhenius, on that part of the coast where we travelled, particularly
respecting the Volcanoes, will undoubtedly prove very interesting, when
he has leisure to put them in proper order for publication.
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