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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands
Author | : Michel René Doortmont |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004158502 |
Annotated guide to the Dutch archives on Ghana and West Africa in the "Nationaal Archief" offering a comprehensive overview of available sources. Part I: description of archival materials. Part II: historical overview of the Dutch in Ghana and selected themes from Ghana's history. With bibliography and index.
Lose Your Mother
Author | : Saidiya Hartman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-01-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780374531157 |
An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present.--Elizabeth Schmidt, "The New York Times."
Decolonizing Heritage
Author | : Ferdinand De Jong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009092413 |
Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
The Slave Trade
Author | : Hugh Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476737452 |
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time, but to answer controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated.
Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004380175 |
Long regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours. Contributors are Hermann W. von Hesse, Daniel Hopkins, Jon Olav Hove, Ole Justesen, Ineke van Kessel, Robin Law, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Jarle Simensen, Selena Axelrod Winsnes†, Larry Yarak.
The Door of No Return
Author | : William St. Clair |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author | : Rebecca Shumway |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580463916 |
The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride-are well known. Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade explores the fascinating history of the transatlantic slave trade on Ghana's coast between 1700 and 1807. Here author Rebecca Shumway brings to life the survival experiences of southern Ghanaians as they became both victims of continuous violence and successful brokers of enslaved human beings. The era of the slave trade gave birth to a new culture in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving birth to new cultures across the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade pushes Asante scholarship to the forefront of African diaspora and Atlantic World studies by showing the integral role of Fante middlemen and transatlantic trade in the development of the Asante economy prior to 1807. Rebecca Shumway is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ghana Business Success Guide - Basic Practical Information and Contacts
Author | : IBP, Inc. |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-07-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1514503093 |
Ghana Business Success Guide - Basic Practical Information and Contacts
Forts and Castles of Ghana
Author | : A. van Dantzig |
Publisher | : Sedco Publishing |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The forts and castles of Ghana form a unique memorial to a precolonial period when representatives of European trading companies bartered as equals with African merchants. It was a colourful episode of world history spanning four centuries, from the fifteenth century Portuguese voyages of discovery to the beginings of the imperial epoch. This books traces the history of more than fifty forts, castles and trading posts built on Ghana's coasts by various European nations. Each entry is accompanied by a descriptive guide and black and white illustrations. Albert van Dantzig, originally from Holland, has lived in Ghana since 1963 and is the senior lecturer in history at the University of Ghana, he is the author of two previous books; The Dutch Participation in the Slave Trade and The Dutch on the Guinea Coast, 1680-1740.