The Diary Of Antera Duke

Author : Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0199704449

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The Diary of Antera Duke by Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup Pdf

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 businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.

Author : Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195376180

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The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader by Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup Pdf

"One of the earliest documents written by an African residing in coastal West Africa predating the arrival of British missionaries and officials in the mid-19th century. Antera Duke was a leader and merchant in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar. His diary is a candid account of daily life in an African community during a period of great historical interest"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199888511

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The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader by Stephen D. Behrendt,A.J.H. Latham,David Northrup Pdf

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 businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.

Author : Daryll Forde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429996436

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Efik Traders of Old Calabar by Daryll Forde Pdf

Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the rituals of the Egbo society and many details of domestic life of among the Efik. This volume includes an English translation to the diary which was originally written in Pidgin. .

Author : David Northrup
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077674482

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Africa's Discovery of Europe by David Northrup Pdf

"Examines the full range of African-European encounters from an unfamiliar African perspective rather than from the customary European one"--Publisher description.

Author : Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139472036

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A History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton Pdf

Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.

Author : D. Northrup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137303073

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How English Became the Global Language by D. Northrup Pdf

In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.

Author : Suzanne Schwarz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781388419

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Slave Captain by Suzanne Schwarz Pdf

As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ship’s surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as ‘wild Arabs’ and ‘savages’. This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the complex and, to modern eyes, repugnant features of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is both a compelling narrative and a valuable reference text. This thoroughly revised edition of Suzanne Schwarz’s best-selling book includes recently discovered archive material.

Author : Koen Bostoen,Inge Brinkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108474184

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The Kongo Kingdom by Koen Bostoen,Inge Brinkman Pdf

A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Author : Antera Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Calabar (Nigeria)
ISBN : OCLC:220979974

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Efik Traders of Old Calabar by Antera Duke Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066960

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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa Pdf

"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857728524

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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.

Author : Lydia Cabrera
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496829474

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The Sacred Language of the Abakuá by Lydia Cabrera Pdf

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.

Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674916135

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Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson Pdf

In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.

Author : Kwame Nimako,Glenn Willemsen
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0745331084

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The Dutch Atlantic by Kwame Nimako,Glenn Willemsen Pdf

The Dutch Atlantic investigates the Dutch involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilization of European populations in the implementation of policies that facilitated the slave trade and examine how European countries created and expanded laws that perpetuated colonization. Addressing key themes such as the incorporation of former slaves into post-slavery states and contemporary collective efforts to forget and/or remember slavery and its legacy in the Netherlands, this is an essential text for students of European history and postcolonial studies.