{"product_id":"a-german-barber-surgeon-in-the-johann-peter-oettinger-9780813944456","title":"A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated here for the first time, \u003ci\u003eA German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade\u003c\/i\u003e 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軋o, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johann Peter Oettinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813944457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813944456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.40w x 0.72d","brand":"Johann Peter Oettinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942815367423,"sku":"9780813944456","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0d9d7df6-e7c1-4a7e-b60e-e3c6fe00a07e.jpg?v=1681494517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-german-barber-surgeon-in-the-johann-peter-oettinger-9780813944456","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}