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Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
By Sparks, Randy J.
- ISBN
- 9780674724877
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ.
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Starred Review on December 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Africans entered the trans-Atlantic slave trade as more than cargo; many operated as wily merchants integral to the far-reaching Atlantic commerce that began with European contact and the search for gold in the 1430s and shifted to traffic in humans. Sparks (history, Tulane Univ.; The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey) focuses on the remarkable transformation of the relatively sleepy Gold Coast fishing village of Annamaboe (Anomabu) in what later became centr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
