...traveler Richard Jobson eccentric in his response to an African chief's offer to buy some "slaves": "I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale...sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes." By the seventeenth century, after all, English prejudices as well as English law were "in favor of...

...Timbuktu. With scorn, but not with complete veracity, he told a black merchant who offered slaves for sale: "We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes." The virtuous trader got no gold, only...

...offered young female slaves but refused point-blank to buy. He told the Manding merchant that the English were 'a people who did not deale in any such commodities,...did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes'. When the merchant protested that slaves were sold to other 'white men, who earnestly desired...

...gold and ivory off Africa's west coast was offered slaves, he answered with truth that the English "were a people who did not deale in any such commodities,...buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes."2 Even the first Negroes in the colonies, who happened to land in Virginia, were not treated...

...Jobson to favour slave trading himself. He writes that when offered slaves to buy by a local chief: ‘I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale...did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shape.' But he does note what he sees as a resemblance between the Irish and the Fulbies, since...

...cloth made of the bark of palm trees.' In 1620-1, Richard Jobson was offered slaves in the Senegambia. 'I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes.'76 By the late eighteenth century, Britain...

...nor even to regard Richard Jobson eccentric in his response to a chief's offer to buy some 'slaves': 'I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale...buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shape.'" Yet Jobson's boast of 1623 proved empty, and the English became the largest carriers in an...

...1623 one English trader, Richard Jobson, when presented in Gambia with "certaine young blacke women," made answer, "We were a people who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another." This would change by 1649. The drama of the slave trade lies in the way...

...merchant named Buckor Sano offered to sell him slaves. Jobson indignantly replied, he later wrote, that "[w]e were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes."1 Only three decades later the English...

...to be above slavery. When one early merchant was offered slaves in the Gambia, he replied: 'We are a people who did not deale in any such commodities,...buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shape'. But it was not long before slaves from Nigeria and Benin began to be sent to the Barbados sugar...