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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792589303321

Autore

Behrendt Stephen D

Titolo

The diary of Antera Duke, an eighteenth-century African slave trader [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham, and David Northrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-19-988851-5

1-282-54359-8

9786612543593

0-19-970444-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DukeAntera

LathamA. J. H

NorthrupDavid A

Disciplina

306.3/62092

B

Soggetti

Slave traders - Nigeria - Old Calabar

Slave trade - Nigeria - Old Calabar - History - 18th century

Old Calabar (Nigeria) History 18th century

Old Calabar (Nigeria) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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