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LOCATING WEST AFRICA IN THE ATLANTIC NARRATIVE - Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade. By Randy J. Sparks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. v + 309. $29.95, hardback (ISBN 9780674724877).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2015

TOBY GREEN
TOBY GREEN*
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King's College London
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West AfricaGhanacomparativeglobalmarketsslave tradetrade
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The Journal of African History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 472 - 475
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