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

The Two Princes of Calabar, An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
Randy J. Sparks
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES

Sparks draws on the surviving correspondence in recounting this remarkable odyssey of two West African "princes." Themselves slave traders, the young men were sold to a physician in Dominica, escaped several times, eventually winning their freedom in the British Courts, only to return to their old ways in Calabar.  (ATL35, $16.50)





 
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