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The diary of Antera Duke, an eighteenth-century African slave trader / Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham, and David Northrup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behrendt, Stephen D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave traders--Nigeria--Old Calabar--Diaries.
- Slave traders.
- Slave traders--Nigeria--Old Calabar--Biography.
- Slave trade--Nigeria--Old Calabar--History--18th century.
- Slave trade.
- Old Calabar (Nigeria)--History--18th century.
- Old Calabar (Nigeria).
- Old Calabar (Nigeria)--Biography.
- Duke, Antera--Diaries.
- Duke, Antera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the height of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African bus
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables; Introduction; PART I; 1 The Diary and Old Calabar's History; 2 The Slave Trade at Old Calabar; 3 The Produce Trade at Old Calabar; 4 Old Calabar's Trading Networks; 5 The Diary of Antera Duke: Comments on the Text; PART II; Extracts from the Diary of Antera Duke; Appendix A: Index of African Names; Appendix B: Antera Duke's Trading Expedition from Old Calabar to Little Cameroon; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988851-5
- 1-282-54359-8
- 9786612543593
- 0-19-970444-9
- OCLC:
- 615635647
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