PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Shumway, Rebecca TI - A Shared Legacy AID - 10.3368/gs.21.1.41 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - Ghana Studies PG - 41--62 VI - 21 IP - 1 4099 - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/21/1/41.short 4100 - https://gs.uwpress.org/gs.uwpress.org/content/21/1/41.full SO - Gha Stu2018 Jan 01; 21 AB - This essay examines three aspects of life on the Gold Coast during the mid-nineteenth century—slavery, racism, and political organizing—in terms of what they can reveal about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and connections between West Africa and the Americas in the abolitionist era.