The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader

by David Northrup, A.J.H. Latham, Stephen D. Behrendt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199922837
• ISBN13: 9780199922833
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"