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The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader
The Diary of Antera Duke An EighteenthCentury African Slave Trader
Author: Stephen D. Behrendt, A.J.H. Latham, David Northrup
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. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199922833
ISBN-10: 0199922837
Publication Date: 6/4/2012
Pages: 314
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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