Letters on West Africa and the slave trade : Paul Erdmann Isert's journey to Guinea and the Caribbean islands in Columbia (1788) / translated from the German and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes.

By:

Isert, Paul Erdmann, 1756-1789

Contributor(s):

Winsnes, Selena Axelrod, 1925-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Legon, Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789988647568
9988647565
1283005166
9781283005166
9786613005168
6613005169
9988647441
9789988647445
9988647328
9789988647322

Uniform titles:

Reise nach Guinea. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Letters on West Africa and the slave trade.DDC classification:

966 22

LOC classification:

DT472 .I813 2007eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations and maps; Acknowledgements; Editor's Introduction; The background of Danish activity in Guinea and the West Indies; Biography of Isert; The book; Previous translations; This translation; Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788); Preface; Table of Contents; First Letter: Guinea 10 November, 1783; Second Letter: Guinea 29 December 1783; Third Letter: Guinea 8 April 1784; Fourth Letter: Guinea 18 May 1784; Fifth Letter: Guinea 25 June 1784; Sixth Letter: Guinea 24 September 1784

Seventh Letter: Guinea 28 March 1785 Eighth Letter: Guinea 16 October 1785; Ninth Letter: Guinea 20 April 1786; Tenth Letter: Guinea 10 August 1786; Eleventh Letter: St. Criox 12 March 1787; Twelfth Letter: Martinique 10 July 1787; Appendix of Meteorological Observations; Editor's Appendices; 1. Chronology; 2. Letter to Sir Joseph Banks; 3. Materials Relating to Frederiksnopel; 4. Isert's Obituary, written by J.A. Kioge; 5. Measurements used by Isert; Bibliography; Epilogue; Index; Back Cover

Summary: Paul E. Isert, a Dane, arrived in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) in 1783, taking advantage of an opening in the slave trade between Guinea and the West Indies. He was appointed as chief surgeon to the Danish establishments on the Guinea Coast. In 1786 he sailed to the West Indies with a cargo of slaves, who revolted. His experiences in Ghana and the West Indies resolved him to end the trans-Atlantic slave abuse. This book is written in the form of letters to his father. An elusive character, it is clear that he nonetheless had an unreservedly positive attitude towards Africa and its indigenous peoples, and an equally negative attitude towards the Europeans on the Guinea coast. An admirer of Rousseau's philosophy, he was concerned about the corrupting influence of the European civilization on the Blacks. His writing attempts at objectivity, seeking to find the common humanity. He claims that the Black was, at least equal to that of the European, which was not shared by his Danish predecessors. This is the first English language edition of his original Danish letters, previously published in German, Dutch, French and Swedish.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-341) and index.

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Paul E. Isert, a Dane, arrived in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) in 1783, taking advantage of an opening in the slave trade between Guinea and the West Indies. He was appointed as chief surgeon to the Danish establishments on the Guinea Coast. In 1786 he sailed to the West Indies with a cargo of slaves, who revolted. His experiences in Ghana and the West Indies resolved him to end the trans-Atlantic slave abuse. This book is written in the form of letters to his father. An elusive character, it is clear that he nonetheless had an unreservedly positive attitude towards Africa and its indigenous peoples, and an equally negative attitude towards the Europeans on the Guinea coast. An admirer of Rousseau's philosophy, he was concerned about the corrupting influence of the European civilization on the Blacks. His writing attempts at objectivity, seeking to find the common humanity. He claims that the Black was, at least equal to that of the European, which was not shared by his Danish predecessors. This is the first English language edition of his original Danish letters, previously published in German, Dutch, French and Swedish.

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