Alexander falconbridge biography
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Anna Maria Falconbridge
Anna Maria (Horwood) Falconbridge (), was the first English woman to give a narrative account of experiences on the African continent.
She was born in All Saints Lane Bristol, England in Her father Charles was a local clock maker. After her parents’ death, she married Alexander Falconbridge, surgeon and slave ship surgeon turned abolitionist, on 16 October aged 19, in Easton in Gordano, against her family's and friends' wishes. After their marriage Anna Maria accompanied her husband to Sierra Leone twice. Once there she “described her experiences in a series of lively, informative letters”.[1] Later she had the letters published. In her work Narrative of Two Voyages she defends the slave trade and ridicules her abolitionist-supporting dead husband.[2]
Visits to Africa
[edit]During Anna Maria's first trip to Africa, she visited a slave-trading fort, Bunce Island, in the Sierra Leone River. It would seem that Anna Maria, came from a family that took part in the slave trade but she was originally sympathetic to the plight of the slaves. Dr Alexander had made 4 slaving voyages as ships' surgeon but became increasingly opposed to the trade. He would not allow his wife to stay with the traders on Bance Island but insisted she
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Primary Sources
(1) Alexander Falcolnbridge, An Balance of representation Slave Vacancy on description Coast look after Africa ()
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Alexander Falconbridge
British surgeon and writer
Alexander Falconbridge (c. –) was a British surgeon who took part in four voyages in slave ships between and In time he became an abolitionist and in published An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. In he was sent by the Anti-Slavery Society to Granville Town, Sierra Leone, a community of freed slaves, where he died a year later in
Early life
[edit]Falconbridge was born around in England or Scotland, possibly Prestonpans or Bristol.[1]
The slave trade
[edit]The British surgeon Alexander Falconbridge served as a ship's surgeon on four slave trade voyages between and (on the ships Tartar (–), Emilia (), Alexander () and, again, Emilia ()[2] before rejecting the slave trade and becoming an abolitionist. (In , French naval forces captured Tartar on her second voyage to transport enslaved people, but before she had taken on any captives.)
Falconbridge gained his experience on slave ships before he met the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson[3] following which he became a member of the Anti-Slavery Society. Clarkson was the author of a pamphlet entitled A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition, published in Clark