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

by Randy J. Sparks

Book Overview

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, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032055
• ISBN13: 9780674032057
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"