Title: | The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe |
Alternate title: | The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe. Comprehending a Distinct Account of His Country and Family; His Elder Brother's Voyage to France, and Reception there; the Manner in Which Himself Was Confided by His Father to the Captain Who Sold Him; His Condition While a Slave in Barbadoes; the True Cause of His Bring Redeemed; His Voyage from Thence; and Reception Here in England. Interspers'd Throughout with Several Historical Remarks on the Commerce of the European Nations, Whose Subjects Frequent the Coast of Guinea. To which is Prefixed a Letter from the Author to a Person of Distinction, in Reference to Some Natural Curiosities in Africa; as Well as Explaining the Motives which Induced Him to Compose These Memoirs |
Note: | second edition; London: Printed for W. Reeve, G. Woodfall, and J. Barnes, 1750 |
Link: | HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC |
Stable link here: | https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp71820 |
Subject: | Sessarakoo, William Ansah |
Subject: | Africans -- Biography |
Subject: | Slavery -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century |
Subject: | Anomabu (Ghana) |
Subject: | Africa, West -- Commerce |
Subject: | Slave trade -- Africa, West -- Early works to 1800 |
Subject: | Slave trade -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 |
Subject: | Slaves -- Barbados -- Biography |
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