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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors--and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement. Their story, written in their own hand, survives as a rare firsthand account of the Atlantic slave experience. Sparks made the remarkable discovery of the princes' correspondence and has managed to reconstruct their adventures from it.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-02-28
Format Kindle eBook

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Country	USA
Manufacturer	Harvard University Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-02-28
Format	Kindle eBook