Abson & Company: Slave Traders in Eighteenth-Century West Africa

by Stanley Alpern

Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, and remained in charge until his death in 1803. He avoided the 'white man's grave' for thirty-six years.

Along the way he had three sons with an African woman, the eldest partly schooled in England, and a bright daughter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849049629
• ISBN13: 9781849049627
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"