WRPR 150: Crossing Borders (HC)

By Leo Africanus, an author and diplomat, published in 1600.

"being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Libyia, and Billendulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines; with all the adjacent islands"

"Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan ... In this fourth impression are added ... many additions throughout the whole work."

"with respect to the fertility of the country; the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. Extracted from divers authors, in order to shew the iniquity of that trade, and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication."

The book also includes "an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave-trade, its nature and lamentable effects."

Includes several maps.

By Mungo Park

The Vigilante was a French slave ship captured by the British. The pamphlet includes a folding plate showing the inside of the ship.

"Prepared from official documents and published by direction of the representatives of the religious Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware."

The ship Pons was based in Philadelphia, and the enslaved people on it were taken to Liberia.

Originally letters addressed to Thomas Clarkson, a prominent British abolitionist. The author, James Field Stanfield, was a former slave-ship sailor.

The observations in question were made in 1787 and 1788.

This work contains the account of the journey aboard a slave ship in the Mozambique channel in 1843 and also contains several illustrations, including an extract from a musical score.