A Shared Legacy: Atlantic Dimensions of Gold Coast (Ghana) History in the Nineteenth Century

R Shumway - Ghana Studies, 2018 - muse.jhu.edu
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Rethinking the" Slaves of Salaga": Post-Proclamation Slavery in the Gold Coast (Colonial Southern Ghana), 1874-1899

KO Akurang-Parry - Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2002 - lh.journals.yorku.ca
Unfree labour migration continued in colonial Africa at a time when the European colonial
authorities were encouraging the use free labour to sustain burgeoning colonial economies …

Remembering a fractured past: Historicizing violence, captivity, and enslavement in northern Ghana in the nineteenth century

E Saboro - Wounds of our past, 2022 - brill.com
The sheer volume and complexity of sources on slavery and the slave trade in Africa make it
practically impossible to provide a comprehensive overview of all the distinct historical …

Liberty, insolence and rum: Cape Coast and the American Revolution

TM Reese - Itinerario, 2004 - cambridge.org
In early 1787, as American vessels flooded the Gold Coast with rum and as the French
worked to extend their coastal position, the Cape Coast Castle governor Thomas Price …

The Fante shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic slave trade in southern Ghana

R Shumway - The International journal of African historical studies, 2011 - JSTOR
African historiography has long acknowledged that the impacts of the trans-Atlantic slave
trade on African communities reached far beyond the loss of life and freedom that occurred …

The abolition of the slave trade and the transformation of the south-central African interior during the nineteenth century

DM Gordon - The William and Mary Quarterly, 2009 - JSTOR
David M. Gordon highland watershed of the Zambezi and southern Zaire river systems forms
the backbone of the south-central African interior. Composed of savanna woodlands, the …

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present by Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku

JA Amin - African Studies Review, 2023 - muse.jhu.edu
Within the last two decades, an increasing body of literature has been produced on the role
of Africa in the making of the Atlantic World. The trans-Atlantic Slave Trade created the …

[BOOK][B] African voices of the Atlantic slave trade: Beyond the silence and the shame

AC Bailey - 2005 - books.google.com
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of
Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes …

Anticolonial public: From slavery to independence in Southern Ghana, c. 1500-1957

S Balakrishnan - 2020 - dash.harvard.edu
This thesis reveals how human geographies of the Atlantic slave trade shaped the rise and
fall of the British colonial state in the Gold Coast (present-day southern Ghana). In 1957, the …

THE 'GOLDEN AGE' IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRE-COLONIAL GOLD COAST: THE ERA OF GOLD EXPORTS (15th TO 17th CENTURIES) RE-EXAMINED

R Law - Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 2015 - JSTOR
It is commonly held that the impact of the Atlantic slave trade upon western Africa was
negative and destructive, in narrowly economic as well as social and moral terms, since it …