Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Papua New Guinea    3. Social history    4. Trade unions   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Anthropology - General    3. Archaeology / Anthropology    4. Social Science    5. Sociology    6. Africa    7. Anthropology    8. England    9. Papua New Guinea    10. Social Science / Anthropology / General    11. Social history    12. Witchcraft   

Subjects:  1. Americas (North Central South West Indies)    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Historical - General    6. Translating & Interpreting    7. 1-4120-1498-0,1412014980,pierre ullman,kenneth G. linton,the friend from kananam: adventures in the new guinea jungle,trafford publishing,Word War II,New Guinea,Australia,tok pisin,barter,fistung,pidgin esperanto,marriage customs,coral reefs    8. American history    9. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    10. Biography: general    11. Biography: historical    12. History-Americas (North Central South West Indies)    13. Language Arts & Disciplines-Translating & Interpreting    14. The Americas    15. Translation & interpretation   

Subjects:  1. Ethnology And Ethnography    2. History: World    3. Mitchell, William E    4. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural    5. Social Science / Ethnology    6. Wape (Papua New Guinea people)    7. Anthropology - Cultural    8. Ethnology    9. Papua New Guinea   

Subjects:  1. Australasian & Pacific history    2. Australia    3. Papua New Guinea   

Subjects:  1. Australia & Oceania - South Pacific    2. Description And Travel    3. General    4. Papua New Guinea    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign   

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Sea captain's account of piracy and the African slave trade.
Captain William Snelgrave's "New Account" is the eye-witnessnarrative of an early eighteenth century British sea captain who spent muchof his career as a slave trader between Africa's Guinea coast and the WestIndies.The book provides a fascinating inside view of the African side ofthe slave trade.Snelgrave was the first European visitor of the craftyand powerful King of Dahomey who was waging a war of conquest against hisAfrican neighbors.Snelgrave paints a graphic portrait of the villages hevisits, the societies of the various kingdoms (the cultures were quitedifferent), the rituals including widespread human sacrifice, and of coursethe very competative and mercantile-based slave trade.Most of the slavesof this region were the captives of the interminable wars and intriguesbetween the kingdoms.Malefactors of a given tribe were also enslaved, butwere usually kept for a kind of indentured servitude at home rather thanbeing sold to the white slave traders.Snelgrave set down many amazingfirst-hand vignettes, including the time, while the guest of a chieftain,he witnessed a mass human sacrifice.When the villagers started tosacrifice a infant boy, Snelgrave could stand it no more, and asked thechieftain to desist.At grave risk to himself and his men, Snelgrave tookup arms and stated clearly that he would not allow this sacrifice to takeplace.The chief reluctantly sold the boy to Snelgrave.When he broughtthe child aboard his ship, he was witness to a touching reunion between theboy and one of the female slaves aboard his ship, who turned out to be theboy's mother.Later, at Barbadoes, Snelgrave purchased the boy and hismother out of his personal funds and granted them their freedom.Thebiographical information about the subtle King of Dahomey and his conquestsand strategies make for very interesting reading.For all of hisfierceness and policy, this redoubtable king wilted in the face of theperiodic attacks of the people of the Loes from beyond the great easternlake.The Loes warriors came mounted on horses, and the Dahomeys did notknow how to contend with them.The interior of Africa was very mysteriousto Snelgrave and his associates.The Europeans were not allowed topenetrate more than 50 miles into the interior, and only rumors and legendsreached them about these mysterious lands.The last third of the bookcontains the spellbinding account of Snelgrave's capture by pirates.Hisship was taken by the pirate Cocklyn off the coast of Africa.The accountof his captivity among the bloodthirsty, foulmouthed crew is harrowing. The drunken quartermaster had a grudge against Snelgrave for trying torally his crew to fight off the pirates during the capture, and made atleast three attempts to murder Snelgrave, most of which were foiled by hisown inebrity or the chance intercession of other pirates who were betterdisposed toward Snelgrave.Another of the pirate captains, Davis, sailedaway from Cocklyn's ship, with Davis later being killed by the Portugesewhile visiting one of their African colonies.The man who took over Davis'ship was none other than the infamous Bartholomew Roberts, one of history'smore renowned pirates.This book is captivating, not only telling acompelling true action story, but revealing history from the perspective ofone who witnessed it first hand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa, West    3. Anthropology - General    4. Description and travel    5. Early works to 1800    6. General    7. Guinea    8. Slave-trade    9. Social Science    10. Travel - Foreign    11. African history: c 1500 to c 1900    12. British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900    13. British Isles    14. History / General    15. c 1700 to c 1800   

Subjects:  1. Barnard, Leonard    2. Biography    3. History: World    4. Missionaries    5. New Guinea    6. Seventh-Day Adventists   

Subjects:  1. African history: Second World War    2. Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War    3. Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War    4. Australia    5. Biography: general    6. Kenya    7. Land forces & warfare    8. Papua New Guinea    9. Social history    10. Syria   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Anthropology - General    3. Archaeology / Anthropology    4. Colonial influence    5. Ethnology    6. History    7. Papua New Guinea    8. Social Science    9. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. 1922-    2. Beier, Ulli,    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. General    7. Historical - General    8. History    9. Influence    10. University of Papua New Guinea    11. Decorative arts & crafts    12. Papua New Guinea   

Subjects:  1. History - General History    2. Oceania    3. Chinnery, Sarah Johnston    4. Diaries   

Subjects:  1. History - General History    2. Oceania    3. Anthropology    4. Land rights    5. Papua New Guinea    6. Property & real estate   

Subjects:  1. History - General History    2. Oceania    3. Australasian & Pacific history: postwar, from c 1945 -    4. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    5. Papua New Guinea    6. c 1960 to c 1970    7. c 1970 to c 1980    8. c 1980 to c 1990    9. c 1990 to c 2000   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Archaeology / Anthropology    3. Cultural And Social Anthropology    4. Duna (Papua New Guinea people)    5. Huli (Papua New Guinea people)    6. Ipili (Papua New Guinea people    7. Ipili (Papua New Guinea people)    8. Oceania    9. Oceania - History    10. Reference    11. Women's Studies - General    12. Anthropology    13. Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas    14. Australasian & Pacific history    15. Cultural studies    16. Social Science / Women's Studies    17. World history   

Subjects:  1. Cleland, Rachel