A first-person account records an African man’s recollection of life before capture, the methods of coastal slave traders and his forced transport on a clandestine slaver, and the community he left behind. It provides vivid descriptions of agricultural practices, staple foods and beverages, house construction, clothing, jewelry and weaving, and social customs including family arrangements and local military organization. Eyewitness detail of raids and slave markets is interwoven with observations about daily labor, craft techniques, and how people adapted after the disruption of enslavement.