Antera Duke

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Who is Antera Duke?

Antera Duke was an 18th-century African slave dealer and Efik chief from Calabar in eastern Nigeria. His diary, written in Nigerian Pidgin English, was discovered in Scotland and published. This diary records his interactions with British merchants to whom he sold slaves; he writes about wearing "white man trousers" and entertaining the merchants he traded with.

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  • Nigeria

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on July 23, 2013

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