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Abson & Company : slave traders in eighteenth-century West Africa / Stanley B. Alpern.
Van Pelt Library HT1399.B45 A56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alpern, Stanley B. (Stanley Bernard), 1927- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade.
- History.
- Slave traders.
- Civilization.
- Benin--Civilization--18th century.
- Benin.
- Benin--Ouidah.
- Slave traders--Benin--Biography.
- Slave trade--Benin--Ouidah--History--18th century.
- Abson, Lionel--Career in slave trade.
- Abson, Lionel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 The English Fort p. 15
- 2 The Company p. 23
- 3 Ouidah p. 35
- 4 Abson's Origins p. 47
- 5 Early Career p. 51
- 6 Decline p. 69
- 7 The Final Years p. 79
- 8 The Aftermath p. 89
- 9 Abson's Contemporaries p. 97.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1849049629
- 9781849049627
- OCLC:
- 1005118497
- Publisher Number:
- 99980002907
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