Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

by Randy J. Sparks

Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic's webs of exchange. Where the Negroes Are Masters brings to life the outpost's feverish commercial bustle and continual brutality, recovering the experiences of the entrepreneurial black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724879
• ISBN13: 9780674724877
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"