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Paul Erdmann Isert's 'Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia' (translator and editor Selena Axelrod Winsnes).
Paul Erdmann Isert, a Brandenburger by birth, was appointed Chief Surgeon to the Danish settlements in West Africa when in his late twenties.
Isert offers information on the Volta river: that Mlefi island lay about 12 miles from the sea, that the Akwamu capital was about as far again, and that the river, no more that 50 German miles in length, formed near there from shallow streams unnavigable even by canoe (p.
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 An 18th Century Alternative to Slavery
Paul Erdmann Isert, a German national who had studied and lived in Denmark, came to the west coast of Africa in 1783.
Isert sailed to Africa in the summer of 1788 and established a plantation at the base of the Awapim Mountains, purchasing the land from the Asante king, Osei Kwame, on behalf of the king of Denmark.
Isert's actual assassination was said to have been carried out by corrupt government officials at Christianborg and their henchmen.
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 An 18th Century Alternative to Slavery
Paul Erdmann Isert, a German national who had studied and lived in Denmark, came to the west coast of Africa in 1783.
Isert sailed to Africa in the summer of 1788 and established a plantation at the base of the Awapim Mountains, purchasing the land from the Asante king, Osei Kwame, on behalf of the king of Denmark.
Isert's actual assassination was said to have been carried out by corrupt government officials at Christianborg and their henchmen.
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 British Academy catalogue - Complete Historical List of British Academy Publications, Part C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Paul of Venice: Logica Magna, Part I, Fascicule 8, Tractatus de Necessitate et Contigentia Futurorum.
Paul of Venice: Logica Magna, Part I, Fascicule 7, Tractatus de Scire et Dubitare.
Paul of Venice: Logica Magna, Part II, Fascicule 6, Tractatus de Veritate et Falsitate Propositionis, et Tractatus de Significato Propositionis.
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Isert arrived in Christiansborg, the center of Danish activity in West Africa, in November 1783.
Isert, his wife and infant daughter all died in 1789.
Isert's book is an important contemporary account of West Africa and the slave trade.
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 Paul Erdmann Isert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-January 21, 1789) was a German botanist.
He was the first scientist to identify the Violet Turaco, Musophaga violacea.
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 Oxford University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Isert's book, in the form of 12 letters evidently written for publication, has excited interest ever since it first appeared in 1788.
His descriptions are the more valuable because, in marked contrast to his predecessors, he reveals an overwhelmingly positive, sympathetic and respectful attitude towards the Africans and their way of life.
Isert's text gives us a clear and lively picture of life on the Gold and Slave Coasts of Africa and the Danish and French islands in the West Indies at the end of the eighteenth century.
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 Bell Catalog - Is
James Paul to the island of Martinico or Guadaloupe : Lisbon, 28 April 1762.
Neue Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Amerika : in den Jahren 1783 bis 1787 : nebst Nachrichten von dem Negerhandel in Afrika / von Paul Erdmann Isert.
Paul Erdmann Iserts Bref, om Guinea-Kusten och Caraibiske Öarne / i sammandrag från tyskan, af J. Stockholm : tryckt hos Johan A. Carlbohm, 1795.
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 Africa & Slavery, Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Antiquarian Booksellers
Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), Danish doctor in Christiansborg on the Gold Coast, was the first European explorer of Ashanti.
- Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), Danish doctor in Christiansborg on the Gold Coast, was the first European explorer of Ashanti.
The Anhang by Paul Range, indicated on the title-page, was not published.
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Letters on West Africa and the slave trade : Paul Erdmann Isert's journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia, 1788
Subjects: Isert, Paul Erdmann, -- 1756-1789 -- Travel -- Africa, West.
Isert, Paul Erdmann, -- 1756-1789 -- Travel -- West Indies.
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Paul Erdmann Isert, Voyages en Guinee et dans les isles Caraibes en Amerique...
This same illustration is in Isert's Neue Reise nach Guinea (Copenhagen, 1788), but is clearer in the Paris edition where it is a frontispiece.
Isert describes the illustration as his "poor attempt at representation by my inadequate brush." A detailed description of this scene that is easily accessible is in Selena Axelrod (ed.
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 AFRICAN DIASPORA IN GERMANY - Medical section
Isert, who had come to Christiansborg as a surgeon to the Danish community, had become acquainted with some African traditional rulers, including Nana Atiemo, the paramount chief of Akuapem.
Isert was influenced, no doubt, by the experience he had on board the slave ship to Europe which went first to the West Indies with slaves from Ghana.
PAUL JENKINS is Basel Mission Archivist and part-time Lecturer in African History at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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 Guinea - IBWiki
West of Akra, the coast is humid and used to be covered in rainforest.
Stretches from Cape Saint Paul to the Mouths of the Niger.
The first to do so was Denmark-Norway, spearheaded by Dr. Paul Erdmann Isert, started to experiment with plantations in Guinea in 1788.
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Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade Paul Erdmann Iserts Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia 1788 - Paul Erdmann Isert, Selena Axelrod Winsnes (Editor) (ISBN 0197261051)
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 The History Cooperative | Conference Proceedings | Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The nature and history of the English, and other European, enclaves in West Africa is in A.W. Lawrence, Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964).
See Paul Erdmann Isert, Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade: Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia, translated and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes (Copenhagen: 1758; reprinted, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
An examination of these commodities is found in chapter eight of Ty M. Reese, Toiling in the Empire: Labor in Three Anglo-Atlantic Ports, London, Philadelphia and Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1783 (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toledo, 2000)
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LOVEJOY, PAUL E. and JOHN O. HUNWICK, article: 'Falkeiana II: A Letter from the Amir of Mafara to the Amir of Zamfara': 3, 95-108.
LOVEJOY, PAUL, JOHN O. O'FAHEY and AL-AMIN ABU-MANGA, article: 'Between Niger and Nile: New Light on the Fulani Mahdist Muhammad al-Dadari': 8, 85-108.
LOVEJOY, PAUL E. and SYDNEY KANYA-FORSTNER, note: 'Collaborative Research in the Recovery of Documentation on the Conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate': 3, 165-72.
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Lovejoy, Paul E. "The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis".
Lovejoy, Paul E. "The Transsaharan and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades from the Sokoto Caliphate" (Unpublished paper, Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, 4-7 December 1993).
Lovejoy, Paul E. "The Central Sudan and the Atlantic Slave Trade," in Robert W. Harms, Joseph C. Miller, David S. Newbury, and Michele D. Wagner, eds., Paths toward the African Past: Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina (Atlanta: ASA Press, 1994), pp.
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 Documento senza titolo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The ideology of slavery in Africa / editor Paul E. Lovejoy.
Instructions for the guidance of the captains and commanding officers of her majesty’s ships of war, employed in the suppression of the slave trade.
Slaves and slave holders on the Gold Coast: towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa / Peter Haenger; edited by J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy; introduction by Paul E. Lovejoy; translated from the german by Christina Handford.
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 Books, History, Africa, Guinea Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 University Museums and Collections in Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
During this period, the collections were used by a number of Copenhagen botanists, for example the well known cyperologist Christen Friis Rottbøll.
Other important early collections from that period are those made by: Johann Gerhard König in South India, Ceylon and Thailand, Paul Erdmann Isert and Peter Thonning in Guinea, and Nathaniel Wallich in Bengal, Nepal, and other parts of India.
As the result of the long history of its collections the Botanical Museum has now more than 25.000 type specimens of vascular plants in the herbaria.
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Shehabi Y, Gatt S, Buckman T, Isert P: Effect of adrenaline, fentanyl and warming of injectate on shivering following extradural analgesia in labour.
Pick CG, Paul D, Pasternak GW: Nalbuphine, a mixed kappa 1 and kappa 3 analgesic in mice.
Kesecioglu J, Rupreht J, Telci L, Dzoljic M, Erdmann W: Effect of aminophylline or physostigmine on recovery from nitrous oxide-enflurane anaesthesia.
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 HIST 105: The Early Modern World
*Paul Erdmann Isert, Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 [1788]), 175-191
Limit any quotations from these authors – should you use them – to no more than three words per quotation.
Write the script for an imaginary conversation between Paul Erdmann Isert and Olaudah Equiano.
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