Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

322 Pages·2014·4.29 MB·English

by  Randy J. Sparks

Where the Negroes Are Masters

Where the Negroes Are Masters
An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Randy J. Sparks
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, En gland
2014
Copyright © 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Sparks, Randy J.
Where the Negroes are masters : an African port in the era of the slave trade /
Randy J. Sparks.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 674- 72487- 7 (alk. paper)
1. Anomabu (Ghana)— History—18th century. 2. Slave trade— Africa, West— History—
18th century. 3. Atlantic Ocean Region— Commerce—History—18th century. 4. Slave
trade— Economic aspects— Africa, West. 5. Africa, West— Economic conditions—
18th century. I. Title.
DT512.9.A56S63 2014
966.701—dc23 2013012275
For James L. Meadows III

Contents
Introduction, 1
1. Annamaboe Joins the Atlantic World, 7
2. John Corrantee and Slave- Trade Diplomacy at Annamaboe, 35
3. Richard Brew and the World of an African- Atlantic Merchant, 68
4. The Pro cess of Enslavement at Annamaboe, 122
5. Tracing the Trade: Annamaboe and the Rum Men, 163
6. A World in Motion: Annamaboe in the Atlantic Community, 186
7. Things Fall Apart: The End of the Eighteenth- Century
Atlantic World, 211
Conclusion, 240
Important Terms, Names, and Places, 247
Notes, 261
Ac know ledg ments, 299
Index, 301
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