WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE?

In Their Own Words.........

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Carter Braxton, Virginia,

USA

"I am told there is a great Traid carried on from Rhode Island to Guinea for Negroes, and I

should be glad to enter into Partnership with some Gentlemen for a Voyage or two and have

[the Negroes] sent here where I believe they sell as well as any where." February 1, 1763,

by Ole Erekson, Engraver, c1876, Library of Congress

Francisco Felix De Souza, Brazil,

South America

Mr De Souza ‘confidently states that he has permission from the King of Portugal to realize his property in any way, either by

shipping slaves or otherwise...he assumes the rights a privileges of a person in authority, granting papers and licences to all the

slave traders”

Christopher White, Surgeon, sailed on a Slave Ship from

Bristol to Barbados

“60 men are to be sent to North Carolina”

Governor HillBritish Governor of Cape

Coast Castle 1844

“A British slave factory was established there as also a French and Portuguese”

Captain James PennyBritish Slave Ship ‘Comte

Du Nord’ 1783

“You’ll find I have been enabled to leave a choice ...assortment...all India goods with a great part of the

Manchester cottons which are much in demand”

Glele, King of Dahomey, West Africa as reported by British Commodore

Wilmot 1863

He did not send slaves away in his own ships, but ‘white men’ came to him for them...if they did not come, he would not sell’

British Map ofAfrica (Guinea)1663-1681

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