Two views from Christiansborg Castle. Volume I, A brief and truthful description of a journey to and from Guinea / Johannes Rask; translated from Danish by Selena Axelrod Winsnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rask, Johannes, 1678-1744.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danes--Travel--Ghana.

Danes.

Danes--Travel--Guinea, Gulf of.

Slave trade--Ghana.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Guinea, Gulf of.

Ghana--Description and travel.

Ghana.

Guinea, Gulf of--Description and travel.

Guinea, Gulf of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Legon, Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Selena Axelrod Winsnes has been engaged, since 1982, in the translation into English, and editing of Danish language sources to West African history, sources published from 1697 to 1822, the period during which Denmark-Norway was an actor in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It comprises five major books written for the Scandinavian public. They describe all aspects of life on the Gold Coast [Ghana], the Middle Passage and the Danish Caribbean islands [US Virgin Islands], as seen by five different men. Each had his own agenda and mind-set, and the books, both singly and combined, hold a wealth of information - of interest both to scholars and lay readers. They provide important insights into the cultural baggage the enslaved Africans carried with them to the America's. One of the books, L.F. Rmer's A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea was runner-up for the prestigious International Texts Prize awarded by the U.S. African Studies Association.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Translators Introduction""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""Chapter Seven""; ""Chapter Eight""; ""Chapter Nine""; ""Chapter Ten""; ""Chapter Eleven""; ""Chapter Twelve""; ""Chapter Thirteen""; ""Chapter Fourteen""; ""Chapter Fifteen""; ""Chapter Sixteen""; ""Chapter Seventeen""; ""Chapter Eighteen""; ""Chapter Nineteen""; ""Chapter Twenty""; ""Chapter Twenty One""

""Chapter Twenty Two""""Chapter Twenty Three""; ""Chapter Twenty Four""; ""Chapter Twenty Five""; ""Chapter Twenty Six""; ""Chapter Twenty Seven""; ""Chapter Twenty Eight""; ""Chapter Twenty Nine""; ""Chapter Thirty""; ""Chapter Thirty One""; ""Chapter Thirty Two""; ""Chapter Thirty Three""; ""Chapter Thirty Four""; ""Chapter Thirty Five""; ""Chapter Thirty Six""; ""Chapter Thirty Seven""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Names Index""; ""Ships Index""; ""Subject Index""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9988-647-94-8

9988-647-78-6

OCLC:

923563003