Antera Duke

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Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was an eighteenth-century African slave dealer and Efik chief from Calabar in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State). His diary, written in Nigerian Pidgin English, was discovered in Scotland and published. This diary records his interactions with British merchants to whom he sold slaves; he writes about wearing "white man trousers" and entertaining the merchants he traded with.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Pocock, Nigel; Victoria Cook. The Business of Enslavement. BBC News. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.

[edit] Further reading

• C. Dayll Forde (ed.), Efik Traders of Old Calabar (London: Oxford University Press, 1956) (contains Duke's diary)