Where the Negroes are masters : an African port in the era of the slave trade / Randy J. Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, Randy J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Economic aspects--Africa, West.

Anomabu (Ghana)--History--18th century.

Anomabu (Ghana).

Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--History--18th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Africa, West--Economic conditions--18th century.

Africa, West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1. Annamaboe Joins the Atlantic World

2. John Corrantee and Slave- Trade Diplomacy at Annamaboe

3. Richard Brew and the World of an African- Atlantic Merchant

4. The Process of Enslavement at Annamaboe

5. Tracing the Trade: Annamaboe and the Rum Men

6. A World in Motion: Annamaboe in the Atlantic Community

7. Things Fall Apart: The End of the Eighteenth- Century Atlantic World

Conclusion

Important Terms, Names, and Places

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674727762

0674727762

9780674726475

0674726472

OCLC:

1024041917