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The Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar offers a rare glimpse into the eighteenthcentury Atlantic World and slave trade from an African perspective It brings us into the trading communities along the coast of Africa and follows the regular movement of goods people and ideas across and around the Atlantic

The Two Princes of Calabar An Eighteenth Century Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar An Eighteenth Century Atlantic Odyssey Randy Sparks’s The Two Princes of Calabar is an engaging read demonstrating literal and scholastic efficiency In a mere one hundred and forty seven pages Sparks paints an ethnographic portrait animating the EuroAfroAmerican Exchange responsible for creating the hybrid culture he calls “Atlantic Creoles” a phrase borrowed from Ira Berlin 3

The Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ Sparks argues that the story of two African princes captured by British slave traders during a massacre off the coast of Old Calabar in 1767 provides insight into the complexities of the eighteenthcentury Atlantic World while also infusing the admittedly Eurocentric Atlantic historiography with a much needed African perspective

Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic Odyssey In this fascinating account Randy J Sparks sweeps the reader from the slave ports of Old Calabar to the colonies of Dominica and Virginia then on to Britain before finally returning to West Africa His narrative is as engaging as his canvas is broad

The Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar is an excellent brief study of late 18thcentury West African slaving culture the transAtlantic slave trade British Methodism and the efforts of religious British to abolish the slave trade

The Two Princes of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar offers a rare glimpse into the eighteenthcentury Atlantic World and slave trade from an African perspective It brings us into the trading communities along the coast

The Two Princes of Calabar An Eighteenthcentury Atlantic ~ The Two Princes of Calabar An Eighteenthcentury 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 Two Princes Of Calabar An EighteenthCentury Atlantic ~ resumed their business of slave Two Princes of Calabar offers a rare glimpse into the eighteenthcentury Atlantic World and slave trade from an African perspective It brings us into the

The Two Princes of Calabar — Randy J Sparks Harvard ~ 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