Slavery | Middle Passage | ||||
This account book records details of the Africans purchased at Bonny, in Ghana, for a voyage to the Caribbean in 1759. To most of the sailors and traders involved in the slave trade, it was a business like any other. It required detailed and accurate accounts. Books like this therefore treated the enslaved as cargo and not as human beings with personal rights of any sort. This account book also lists the wide variety of goods that the Molly carried to trade for African people, and the prices that the ship had to pay. Many of these goods