Hello, I'm Alan Cobley, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus. On this day, November the 4th, 1694, the slave ship Hannibal, owned by the Royal Africa Company, arrived in Barbados. The story of the voyage is preserved in a journal written by its captain, Thomas Phillips, and epitomises the horror of the transatlantic slave trade. The Hannibal had left London over a year earlier, on October 25th, 1693, with a crew of 70 and carrying 33 passengers.
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