Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade (Fontes Historiae Africanae Series Varia)

Isert's book, in the form of twelve letters evidently written for publication, has excited interest ever since it first appeared in 1788. Though Isert's text was long ago translated into other languages, this is its first translation from the original German into English. Already a respected botanist and medical doctor, Isert became interested in ethnography on his arrival in Accra. Isert also has a special place in West African history because of his attempt to establish a plantation on the Gold Coast to counteract the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Throughout his text Isert draws 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.Isert, Paul E. is the author of 'Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade (Fontes Historiae Africanae Series Varia)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780197261057 and ISBN 0197261051.