TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sparks,Randy J.
TI  - Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
SN  - 9780674726475
AV  - DT512 
U1  - 966.701 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Slave trade-Africa, West-History-18th century
KW  - Slave trade-Economic aspects-Africa, West
KW  - Anomabu (Ghana)-History-18th century
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region-Commerce-History-18th century
KW  - Africa, West-Economic conditions-18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Annamaboe Joins the Atlantic World -- 2. John Corrantee and Slave-Trade Diplomacy at Annamaboe -- 3. Richard Brew and the World of an African-Atlantic Merchant -- 4. The Process of Enslavement at Annamaboe -- 5. Tracing the Trade: Annamaboe and the Rum Men -- 6. A World in Motion: Annamaboe in the Atlantic Community -- 7. Things Fall Apart: The End of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- Conclusion -- Important Terms, Names, and Places -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings
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