Alexander Falconbridge

Alexander Falconbridge was a British surgeon, active in the 1780s, who served on several slave voyages before becoming an abolitionist. Sources describe him as having taken part in four slave-ship voyages between about 1782 and 1787, experiences that later shaped his powerful criticism of the trade.

He is best known for publishing An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa in 1788. The book drew on what he had seen at sea and became an important early eyewitness work for the anti-slavery cause.

Falconbridge later worked with abolitionists connected to the settlement at Sierra Leone, where he died in 1792. Although little is firmly documented about his early life, his writing remains one of the clearest firsthand testimonies from someone who had directly participated in the slave trade and then rejected it.