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Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast

The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807 - 1875
  • ISBN-13: 9780739187852
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Jarvis L. Hargrove
  • Price: AUD $244.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/02/2016
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Chapter 1: European Arrival in West Africa and the Gold Coast: Portuguese, Dutch and British, 1440-1680 Chapter 2: The Akan and the Formation of the Asante State Chapter 3: Slave Trading and Trade Routes on the Gold Coast: The Fight for the Coast Line, 1770-1820 Chapter 4: The Gold Coast, Abolition Laws and the Era of Illegal Slave Trading, 1776-1842 Chapter 5: Economic Transition within Greater Asante in the Mid-nineteenth Century Chapter 6: The Asante-British Treaties and Conflicts, 1817-1874
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