ANTERA DUKE DIARY PDF

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Written by a major African merchant at the height of Calabar’s overseas commerce, Antera Duke’s diary 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. The publication of this volume will mark the first publicly available edition of this valuable primary source in over fifty years.

In his diary, Antera Duke ca. 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 tois 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 dyke place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Dule 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.

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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 anteta diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, ajtera 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.

He collaborated with James A. Rawley on a revised edition of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Latham did field work in Calabar in anttera, funded by wntera Leverhulme Overseas Scholarship, and taught at udke University of Wales, Swansea until his retirement in Duie is author of Old Calabar, David Northrup is professor of history at Boston College and a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa, Atlantic history, systems of coerced labor, and imperialism.

Among other works, he is author of Trade Without Rulers: A Brief History with Documents Antera Duke’s diary is therefore an extraordinarily important source for the history of the Cross River region, and indeed for Africa as a whole.

I am impressed with the way in which the edition has been handled, by the supplementary materials and the care that the authors have taken to present the diary and its context. As such, the diary has no equivalent as a historical source for anyone interested in the diqry, economic, ethnographic, political, or social aspects of eighteenth-century trade and life in part of what is now Nigeria. His writings reveal how life for those trading humans was full of the same joys and pleasures, tragedies and pains that people everywhere have felt throughout history.

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It provides a unique, firsthand perspective of the Atlantic slave trade, and is a book to which I will return frequently. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.

It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and dixry by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content. Choose your country or region Close. Ebook This title is available as an ebook. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider.

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Latham, and David Northrup Written by a major African merchant at the height of Calabar’s overseas commerce, Antera Duke’s diary 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, anteda and provisions.

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