Description
Called one of the best books of the year by The Economist, the London Times, and Publishers Weekly, this is the gripping history of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, the African headquarters of the British slave trade for nearly one hundred and fifty years--until the legal trade was abolished in 1807.
Author: William St Clair
Publisher: BlueBridge
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781933346168
ISBN10: 1933346167
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Slavery
- History | Africa | West
- History | World | General
Author: William St Clair
Publisher: BlueBridge
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781933346168
ISBN10: 1933346167
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Slavery
- History | Africa | West
- History | World | General
About the Author
William St Clair is a former senior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He has also held senior positions in the British Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, and the Treasury, and is the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, Lord Elgin and the Marbles, and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.