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Statements illustrative of the nature of the Slave-Trade, to which are subjoined some particulars respecting the Colony at Sierra Leone, published by a Committee appointed by the Religious Society of Friends, to aid in promoting the total abolition of the slave trade

Faits explicatifs de la nature de la traite des noirs, suivis de détails sur la colonie de Sierra Léone, publié par un comité nommé par la Société Religieuse des Amis pour concourir à l'abolition complette [sic] de la traite des noirs (London: G. Schulze, 1824). French. Faits relatifs à la traite des noirs, suivis de détails sur la colonie de Sierra-Léone, publié par un comité nommé par la Société Religieuse des Amis pour concourir à l'abolition complète de la traite des noirs (Paris: Lachevardière Fils, 1824). French.

Friends House Library, London. British Library.

Slave Trade Abolition Quakers Society Friends Colony Sierra Leone Europe

This Quaker pamphlet addresses a European audience, declaring the aims of its writers to be religious and unificatory: "They are anxious to awaken the feelings of their fellow-professors of Christianity in the various nations of Europe" (3). It cites Clarkson, Giudicelly, and a number of letters from Europeans residing in West Africa on the renewal of slave trading by Europeans after 1815, and describes the conditions on board captured European slave ships. It also describes the growth of the British colony of Sierra Leone, and cites reports of slave trading activity published in the Sierra Leone Gazette.

Two different French translations of the pamphlet were published in 1824, in London and in Paris (the weblink is to the translation published in Paris, Faits relatifs à la traite des noirs).