Where The Negroes Are Master Book Summary

Where the Negroes Are Master: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade is a book written by Randy J. Sparks, who is Professor of History at Tulane University. On the Gold Coast during the eighteenth-century, Annamaboe was known as the largest slave trading post. The trading post was a home to very successful African merchants who had an odd partnership with some people in Europe. That made the town and the people that lived in the town, an extremely important part of the Atlantic’s exchange web. The port of Annamaboe was located in present day Ghana. The port brought the merchants into contact with people from the Royal African Company, Rhode Island Rum Men, European slave traders, and Africans who were captured from neighboring nations, daily. Since the leaders of Annamaboe were

His audience for the book is academic and general audience who is interested in learning about the Atlantic slave trade, the people that were involved with it, and the town of Annamaboe. He begins with the major transformation of Annamaboe and how it grew and rose to become a powerful trading port, and how there was a shift from golf trading to slave trading during the eighteenth century. African tribal chiefs and slave traders, who were English, French, Dutch, and North American, often worked together, but people thought they only did so in order to punish rival tribes or favoring with the whites. Sparks did a great job of being very detailed when he discussed the way Annamaboe progressed and how it gained power, and it proved to people that the chiefs and the slave traders weren’t working together for only bad reasons. He made it very clear that at certain locations along the Gold Coast, native Africans were not only very active within the trade, but also very enthusiastic and voluntary with the