Antera Duke
Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was an 18th-century African slave dealer and Efik chief from Calabar in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State). His diary, written in Nigerian Pidgin English, was discovered in Scotland and published. This diary records his interactions with British merchants to whom he sold slaves; he writes about wearing "white man trousers" and entertaining the merchants he traded with.[1]
References[]
- ^ Pocock, Nigel; Victoria Cook. "The Business of Enslavement". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
Further reading[]
- C. Dayll Forde (ed.), Efik Traders of Old Calabar (London: Oxford University Press, 1956) (contains Duke's diary)
Categories:
- 18th-century African businesspeople
- African slave traders
- People from Calabar
- People of Efik descent
- 18th-century Nigerian people
- African business biography stubs
- Nigerian people stubs