The Atlantic Sound
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: November 1, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780099429968
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; Social history; Ghana; Lancashire; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; History: World
First sentence: On 28 April 1881 a tentative and somewhat frightened young man named John Emmanuel Ocansey boarded a British ship, the SS Mayumba, on the shores of the River Volta in the British territory known as the Gold Coast.