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A German barber-surgeon in the Atlantic slave trade : the seventeenth-century journal of Johann Peter Oettinger

Author: Johann Peter Oettinger; Craig Koslofsky; Roberto Zaugg
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. ©2020
Series: Studies in early modern German history.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The translated and edited journals of a young German barber-surgeon recording his travels across Germany and the Netherlands and time spent on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships sailing to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696. He observes shipboard life, trade in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage, and the sale of slaves in the Caribbean. He describes Amsterdam, Curaçao, St. Thomas, and Suriname, and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Diaries
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Oettinger, Johann Peter, 1666-1746.
German barber-surgeon in the Atlantic slave trade
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
(DLC) 2020037912
Named Person: Johann Peter Oettinger
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Johann Peter Oettinger; Craig Koslofsky; Roberto Zaugg
ISBN: 9780813944456 0813944457
OCLC Number: 1192304998
Description: lxxxvii, 131 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: The journal of Johann Peter Oettinger --
Appendix: documents for comparison --
An annotated guide to sources.
Series Title: Studies in early modern German history.
Responsibility: edited and translated by Craig Koslofsky and Roberto Zaugg.

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As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger  Read more...

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