Alford, T. (1977). Prince among slaves. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Terry Alford recounts the story of Abdul-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Sori was a Torodbe Fulani Muslim Amir from the city of Timbo, which is located in Guinea. Abdul-Rahman was captured at the age of 26 and sold into slavery for the price of two flasks of gunpowder, some muskets, two bottle of rum, and eight twists of tobacco. He was brought to Natchez, Mississippi aboard a British slave ship and sold, with another slave, for approximately 950 pesos. Abdul-Rahman made his master a very wealthy man because he was educated and knew how to grow cotton. Cotton had been growing for years in his native land where his people had been successful farmers. Cotton was a newly introduced
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This second source is a compilation of essays that bring to life the horrific details of the Transatlantic slave trade. Its divided into sections that include the reasons that Africans were enslaved and how the slave trade functioned within Africa. It breaks down the middle passage and the facts and figures associated with the triangle between Africa, the Americas, and …show more content…
An estimated twelve million Africans were victims of a forced migration that lasted for four hundred years. Klein also highlights the effects that were generated in the Americas and Europe because of this migration. The book concludes with the uprising against owning another human being and the abolishment of slavery. Sparks, R. J. (2014). In Where the negros are masters. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
In this book, Sparks starts off highlighting the town of Annamaboe and its transformation from a small fishing village into a thriving trading port, known for its human commodities.
Sparks does a great job in laying out the beginnings of how and why Africans were enslaved. He also shows the cause and effect of the Europeans and how they transformed villages like
Annamaboe’s people, culture, and economy.
Sparks also goes into a great depth in regards to explaining the conditions that existed on the slave ships. He describes the disease, the suicides, and the unthinkable conditions that these people endured on the journey across the ocean. He ends the book with a description of how the slave trade formally ended, or rather how it only changed its outward persona as a crime against
This second source is a compilation of essays that bring to life the horrific details of the Transatlantic slave trade. Its divided into sections that include the reasons that Africans were enslaved and how the slave trade functioned within Africa. It breaks down the middle passage and the facts and figures associated with the triangle between Africa, the Americas, and …show more content…
An estimated twelve million Africans were victims of a forced migration that lasted for four hundred years. Klein also highlights the effects that were generated in the Americas and Europe because of this migration. The book concludes with the uprising against owning another human being and the abolishment of slavery. Sparks, R. J. (2014). In Where the negros are masters. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
In this book, Sparks starts off highlighting the town of Annamaboe and its transformation from a small fishing village into a thriving trading port, known for its human commodities.
Sparks does a great job in laying out the beginnings of how and why Africans were enslaved. He also shows the cause and effect of the Europeans and how they transformed villages like
Annamaboe’s people, culture, and economy.
Sparks also goes into a great depth in regards to explaining the conditions that existed on the slave ships. He describes the disease, the suicides, and the unthinkable conditions that these people endured on the journey across the ocean. He ends the book with a description of how the slave trade formally ended, or rather how it only changed its outward persona as a crime against