Alexander Falconbridge (about 1760 to 1792) was a British surgeon who served as ship's surgeon on four slave-trade voyages between 1782 and 1787. After meeting the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson he turned against the trade, joined the Anti-Slavery Society and in 1788 published An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, an influential abolitionist book describing the trade from the African coast through the Middle Passage to sale in the West Indies. He gave evidence to a House of Commons committee in 1790, and in 1791 the society sent him to Granville Town in Sierra Leone to reorganise the settlement of freed slaves. He died there at the end of 1792, and Falconbridge Point in Freetown is probably named after him.
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was a British surgeon
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Early life
Falconbridge was born around 1760 in England or Scotland, possibly Prestonpans or Bristol.
Final voyage and death
Falconbridge eventually died of drinking a week before Christmas 1792.
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was a British surgeon
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In time he became an abolitionist and in 1788 published An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa.
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was a British surgeon who took part in four voyages in slave ships
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