The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (Paperback)

Stephen D. Behrendt

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2012

0199922837 / 9780199922833

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Paperback. In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at theheight of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade forslaves, produce, and provisions.This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns thatcomprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's originaltrade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it. Written by a major African merchant at the height of Calabar's overseas commerce, Antera Duke's diary provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains. The publication of this volume will mark the first publicly available edition of this unique primary source in more than fifty years. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (Paperback)
Autore
Stephen D. Behrendt
Editore
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0199922837
ISBN 13
9780199922833

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