Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
by Sparks, Randy J
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0674724879
- ISBN 13
- 9780674724877
- Seller
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Sykesville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Harvard University Press, 2014-01-06. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Hardcover, first edition. Harvard University Press, 2014. Near Fine hardcover quarterbound tan boards with dark brown cloth at spine, and gilt lettering. Only fault is very faint impress from where previous bookseller's penciled code was erased from top corner of front free endpaper. Clean inside and out, with no markings of any kind. Binding is solid and square. In Near Fine dustjacket. From the dustjacket: "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 Atlanticâs webs of exchange. Where the Negroes Are Masters brings to life the outpostâs feverish commercial bustle and continual brutality, recovering the experiences of the entrepreneurial black and white men who thrived on the lucrative traffic in human beings.... Located in present-day Ghana, the port of Annamaboe brought the townâs Fante merchants into daily contact with diverse peoples: Englishmen of the Royal African Company, Rhode Island Rum Men, European slave traders, and captured Africans from neighboring nations. Operating on their own turf, Annamaboeâs African leaders could bend negotiations with Europeans to their own advantage, as they funneled imported goods from across the Atlantic deep into the African interior and shipped vast cargoes of enslaved Africans to labor in the Americas.... Far from mere pawns in the hands of the colonial powers, African men and women were major players in the complex networks of the slave trade. Randy Sparks captures their collective experience in vivid detail, uncovering how the slave trade arose, how it functioned from day to day, and how it transformed life in Annamaboe and made the port itself a hub of Atlantic commerce. From the personal, commercial, and cultural encounters that unfolded along Annamaboeâs shore emerges a dynamic new vision of the early modern Atlantic world.
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- Bookseller
- Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001827
- Title
- Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
- Author
- Sparks, Randy J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674724879
- ISBN 13
- 9780674724877
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2014-01-06
- Size
- 8x6x1
- Keywords
- History, Slavery, Slave Trade, United States, Race, Racism, Colonialism, Africa
- X weight
- 23 oz
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About the Seller
Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA
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About Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA
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