A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave-trade
Subtitle: containing, I. The history of the late conquest of the kingdom of Whidaw by the King of Dahomè. The author's journey to the conquerer's camp; where he saw several captives sacrificed, &c. II. The manner how the Negroes become slaves. The numbers of them yearly exported from Guinea to America. The lawfulness of that trade. The mutinies among them on board the ships where the author has been, &c. III. A relation of the author's being taken by pirates, and the many dangers he underwent
By: By Captain William Snelgrave..
Publisher: printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street.
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Travel; Slave trade; Slave rebellions; Slave ships; Pirates; Description and travel; History
Other titles: New account of of Guinea, and the slave-trade
Notes: The Kingdom of Whydah (also known and spelt in old literature as; Hueda, Whidah, Ajuda, Ouidah, Whidaw, Juida, and Juda; in Yoruba as Igelefe; in French as Ouidah) was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. The last ruler of Whydah was King Haffon, who was deposed in 1727, when Whydah was conquered and annexed by the Kingdom of Dahomey.

Signatures: A⁸ (A1 verso blank) a⁴ B-T⁸ (N8 verso blank).

Errors in paging: gathering G has pages 81-96 numbers tranposed: pages 82-86, 86-87, 90-91, and 94-95, misnumbred 66-67, 70-71, 74-75, and 78-79.

Folded frontispeice map has title: A new map of that part of Africa called the coast of Guinea from the river Senegal in Lattd. 16d. No. to Cape Lopez in 1d. 00' So. with the inland countries from the sea so far as the great rivers, Senegal and Niger" and

Engraved tail-pieces.

Errata: page [24], 1st count.

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 150

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 7204

Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 4702

Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, 4197

European Americana, 734/205

English short title catalogue, T136167

Purchase; 1915; 10757.