Journal article
The royal slave: nobility, diplomacy and the "African Prince" in Britain, 1748-1752
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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 to the Gold Coast in 1750. This paper examines the specific political and cultural circumstances surrounding his remarkable journey, through the lens of the media generated about him during his tim...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument, 66.8KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0165115315000492
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Itinerario Journal website
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 329-347
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-01
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2041-2827
- ISSN:
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0165-1153
- Source identifiers:
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570189
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- pubs:570189
- Deposit date:
- 2015-12-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Research Institute for History, Leiden University
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2015, Research Institute for History, Leiden University.
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