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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464486503321

Autore

Sparks Randy J

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

0-674-72776-2

0-674-72647-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

966.701

Soggetti

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

Slave trade - Economic aspects - Africa, West

Electronic books.

Anomabu (Ghana) History 18th century

Atlantic Ocean Region Commerce History 18th century

Africa, West Economic conditions 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.