|
|
| Plot Summary of The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey |
|---|
"In the lives of two brothers from a slave-trading community on the Bight of Biafra, Randy J. Sparks uncovers a little known episode in the slave trade and traces the trade's social and economic impact throughout the Atlantic. During a disagreement with a nearby rival slave-trading clan in 1767, which was prompted by English slave merchants, the brothers were seized by a ship captain and pressed into slavery. Thus began their seven-year odyssey to return home.
The brothers were enslaved in Dominica and Virginia. They were eventually taken to England where the Methodists took up their cause. Author Sparks discovered this story while reading their letters to Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism. Eventually, they were freed after their case was adjudicated in the English courts. The book does not make clear whether the brothers or their family continued in the slave trade after this ordeal."
ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
|
|
| Review Analysis of The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey |
|---|
|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
|
|
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Political/social rights fight
Yes
Plotlet:
- slavery
Period of greatest activity?
- 1700's
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Black Africa
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
Water?
Yes
Century:
- 18th century
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- wicked rich people
Writer's slant towards subject:
- somewhat unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A few 1-5 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
|
|
|
Click here for more information about this book
Randy J. Sparks Resident Scholar Profiles
TOP SCHOLAR:
 ldpaulson
SCHOLARS:
| |
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
Use our site!
17 FREE Sci-Fi Ebooks!
FREE "How to be happy" Ebook!
Feedback
Most recent discussions:
General Book Talk
Book writing discussion
Off-topic message board
George W. Bush
12:16:44 AM
Norah Lofts
12:50:53 AM
Suzanne Weyn
4:47:34 PM
Wilma Counts
1:23:32 PM
Kin Platt
12:58:29 AM
Anonymous
12:47:34 PM
Lilian Jackson Braun
10:05:52 PM
Jane Rubino
10:04:38 PM
LaVyrle Spencer
10:04:00 PM
G.A. McKevett
10:03:31 PM
David Williams
10:03:01 PM
Steven Pressfield
10:02:30 PM
Jeanette Walls
10:00:19 PM
Darryl Ponicsan
9:59:27 PM
Ann Rinaldi
9:58:30 PM
R.L. Stine
9:57:34 PM
Geoffrey Huntington
9:57:14 PM
Betty Mahmoody
9:56:38 PM
Deric Longden
9:56:11 PM
Mary Downing Hahn
9:55:48 PM
More message boards
|
