The royal slave: nobility, diplomacy and the "African Prince" in Britain, 1748-1752
William Ansah Sessarakoo, the son of a powerful Fante slave trader on the Gold Coast, was tricked and sold into slavery in Barbados by a British ship’s captain during the 1740s. He was emancipated and brought to Britain in 1748, where he enjoyed a brief period of national celebrity before returning...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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