Traveler Accounts: Please use the following links to access items and find the associated call numbers within the University Libraries Catalog.
William Bosman: A New And Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705)
• Richard F. Burton, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (1863)
• Archibald Dalzel, The History of Dahomy: An Inland Kingdom (1793)
• John Duncan, Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846 (1847)
• F.E. Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans (1851)
• Robert Norris, Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee (1789)
• William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea (1734)
• P. Hair, A. Jones, R. Law, eds. Barbot on Guinea (1678-1712)
• Anna Maria Falconbridge, Narratives of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, 1791-1793)
• Alexander Falcolnbridge, An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa (1788)
• Joseph Dupuis, Journal of a Residence in Ashantee (1824)*
• Thomas Bowdich, Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (1873)*
• Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot: An African Slaver (1854)
• John Newton, The Journal of a Slave Trader, 1725-1807
• Robert O. Collins, ed., Documents from the African Past
• Said Hamdun and Noel King, eds. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa (1300s)
• Captain Hugh Clapperton, Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (1845)
• Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire (1500s)
• Richard Jobson, The golden trade; or, A discovery of the river Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians
• Francis Moore, Travels into the inland parts of Africa (1738)
North American Slave Narratives. Please click the following link to access the information listed below: https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/