A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger

As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to...
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A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger by Oettinger, Johann Peter

A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger

€129,61

A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger

€129,61
Author: Johann Peter Oettinger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive. Oettinger's journal describes shipboard life, trade in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage, and the sale of enslaved captives in the Caribbean.

Translated here for the first time, A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade documents Oettinger's journeys across the Atlantic, his work as a surgeon, his role in the purchase and branding of enslaved Africans, and his experiences in France and the Netherlands. His descriptions of Amsterdam, Cura ao, St. Thomas, and Suriname, as well as his account of societies along the coast of West Africa, from Mauritania to Gabon, contain rare insights into all aspects of Europeans' burgeoning trade in African captives in the late seventeenth century. This journeyman's eyewitness account of all three routes of the triangle trade will be invaluable to scholars of the early modern world on both sides of the Atlantic.



Author: Johann Peter Oettinger
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.40w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780813944456

About the Author

Craig Koslofsky, Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is author of Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe.

Roberto Zaugg, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Zurich, is coeditor of Union in Separation: Diasporic Groups and Identitiesin the Eastern Mediterranean (1100-1800).


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