Antera Duke

Antera Duke (* around 1735 in Akwa Akpa , today in Nigeria ; † around 1809) was a slave trader from the Efik people , who is best known for his preserved diary , which is an important source for research on the history of Africa in the 18th century represents.

Duke is first mentioned in a ledger from 1769 to 1770 of the slave ship Dobson as a slave trader with the title King Warr . The meaning of this title is unknown, but should suggest a high social position. Antera Duke sold a total of 37 slaves to the Dobsonian traders over fourteen different days. It was a relatively slow business and the slaves were only sold in small quantities.

Antera Duke wrote his diary from 1785 to 1788 in Nigerian pidgin , describing his daily business and his contacts with British slave traders . A few years after his death, his diary was brought to Edinburgh by a Scottish missionary . The diary is the only contemporary surviving source that looks at the Atlantic slave trade from an African perspective.

Web links

Antera Duke on the Slavery and Remembrance page

literature

Antera Duke: The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader . Ed .: Stephen D. Behrendt, AJH Latham, David Northrup. Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-992283-3 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c P. EH Hair: Antera Duke of Old Calabar: A Little More about an African Entrepreneur . In: History in Africa . tape 17 , 1990, pp. 359-365 , JSTOR : 3171825 .

personal data
SURNAME	Duke, Antera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Efik slavers
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH	Akwa Akpa , today part of Nigeria
DATE OF DEATH	around 1809

[:0-1] P. EH Hair: Antera Duke of Old Calabar: A Little More about an African Entrepreneur . In: History in Africa . tape 17 , 1990, pp. 359-365 , JSTOR : 3171825 .