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The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader
An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader
Stephen D. Behrendt, A.J.H. Latham, and David Northrup
312 pages
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156x234mm
978-0-19-992283-3
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Paperback
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12 July 2012
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- The diary is the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant.
- Includes both the original text of Antera Duke's diary and translations into standard English on facing pages.
- Introductory essays place the diary in historical context.
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 editors draw on Antera's first language, Efik, to illuminate his diary. 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.Readership: People interested in African history and the history of the slave trade.
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Stephen D. Behrendt, Senior Lecturer in History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, A.J.H. Latham, taught history, University of Wales, Swansea, and David Northrup, Professor of History, Boston College Stephen D. Behrendt is a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He collaborated with James A. Rawley on a revised edition of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (2005).
A. J. H. Latham did field work in Calabar in 1965-66, and taught at the University of Wales, Swansea until his retirement in 2003.
David Northrup is professor of history at Boston College and a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa, Atlantic history, systems of coerced labor, and imperialism.
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Introduction
Chapter One The Diary and Old Calabar History
Chapter Two The Slave Trade at Old Calabar
Chapter Three The Produce Trade at Old Calabar
Chapter Four Old Calabar's Trading Networks
Chapter Five The Diary of Antera Duke: Notes on the Text
THE DIARY OF ANTERA DUKE
Appendix A Index of African Names
Appendix B Antera Duke's Trading Expedition from Old Calabar to Little Cameroon
Bibliography
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