Africa Remembered

Philip D. Curtin

“The Atlantic slave trade was one of the greatest intercontinental migrations of world history; today about one-third of all people of African descent live outside of Africa. Yet the historical record of the slave trade remains curiously uneven. Ten personal narratives collected in this volume reveal aspects of this slave trade between 1730 and 1830. Eight are the original accounts of Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the coast for sale to Europeans; two other observers on the local scene (an African and a Tatar from Astrakhan) saw the slave trade from the African point of view. Thus the collection represents a fascinating sample of the experience of millions of slaves who were shipped to the Americas, but whose personal reactions are all but unknown. Here is the account of “Job ben Solomon,” who served as a slave in Maryland - and was later presented at the British court....

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