Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was a leading African slave dealer and Efik chief from Old Calabar in the Bight of Biafra in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State) during the late eighteenth century. He gradually prospered and was member of the local Ekpe society that had a great amount of power over slave trade. He arranged funerals, which for men of standing like himself included the ritual sacrifice of slaves, who were decapitated to accompany the master into the spirit world. Duke and his fellow Efik traders "dressed as white men" and entertained captains of Slave ships.
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| - Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was a leading African slave dealer and Efik chief from Old Calabar in the Bight of Biafra in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State) during the late eighteenth century. He gradually prospered and was member of the local Ekpe society that had a great amount of power over slave trade. He arranged funerals, which for men of standing like himself included the ritual sacrifice of slaves, who were decapitated to accompany the master into the spirit world. Duke and his fellow Efik traders "dressed as white men" and entertained captains of Slave ships. (en)
- Antera Duke (* etwa 1735 in , heute zu Nigeria; † etwa 1809) war ein Sklavenhändler aus dem Volk der Efik, der insbesondere durch sein erhaltenes Tagebuch bekannt ist, welches eine bedeutende Quelle für die Forschung zur Geschichte Afrikas im 18. Jahrhundert darstellt. (de)
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| - Antera Duke (alive as late as 1788) was a leading African slave dealer and Efik chief from Old Calabar in the Bight of Biafra in eastern Nigeria (now in Cross River State) during the late eighteenth century. He gradually prospered and was member of the local Ekpe society that had a great amount of power over slave trade. He arranged funerals, which for men of standing like himself included the ritual sacrifice of slaves, who were decapitated to accompany the master into the spirit world. Duke and his fellow Efik traders "dressed as white men" and entertained captains of Slave ships. His diary, written in Nigerian Pidgin English, was discovered in Scotland and published. This diary records his interactions with British merchants to whom he sold slaves; he writes about wearing "white man trousers" and entertaining the merchants he traded with. In addition to trading slaves, Duke sometimes caught the slaves himself. According to his diary, once he settled an old score with a Bakassi merchant by capturing him and his two slaves and personally delivering them aboard a slave ship. During the three years he kept his diary (1785-88), he noted the departure of twenty vessels (all from Liverpool) he had helped to "slave". A new edition of his diary, edited by Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham, and David Northrup, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. (en)
- Antera Duke (* etwa 1735 in , heute zu Nigeria; † etwa 1809) war ein Sklavenhändler aus dem Volk der Efik, der insbesondere durch sein erhaltenes Tagebuch bekannt ist, welches eine bedeutende Quelle für die Forschung zur Geschichte Afrikas im 18. Jahrhundert darstellt. Duke wird erstmals in einem Geschäftsbuch von 1769 bis 1770 des Sklavenschiffs als Sklavenhändler mit dem Titel King Warr erwähnt. Die Bedeutung dieses Titels ist unbekannt, dürfte aber auf eine hohe gesellschaftliche Stellung schließen lassen. Antera Duke verkaufte den Händlern der Dobson insgesamt 37 Sklaven aufgeteilt auf vierzehn verschiedene Tage. Es handelte sich verhältnismäßig um ein langsames Geschäft und die Sklaven wurden nur in kleinen Mengen verkauft. Antera Duke schrieb sein Tagebuch von 1785 bis 1788 in nigerianischem Pidgin und beschreibt darin sein tägliches Geschäft, sowie seine Kontakte zu britischen Sklavenhändlern. Einige Jahre nach seinem Tod wurde sein Tagebuch von einem schottischen Missionar nach Edinburgh gebracht. Das Tagebuch stellt die einzige zeitgenössische erhaltene Quelle dar, die den atlantischen Sklavenhandel aus afrikanischer Perspektive betrachtet. (de)
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