Author: John Joseph CrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Collection of official documents"--Foreword.
Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874
Author: John Joseph CrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Collection of official documents"--Foreword.
Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750-1874
Author: JJ. CrooksRecords Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874. Edited by J.J. Crooks
Author: J. J. CrooksRecords relating to the Gold Coast settlements
Author: Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settleeents from 1750 to 1874. [Ed.] by J. J. Crooks
![Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settleeents from 1750 to 1874. [Ed.] by J. J. Crooks PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/BmJ0QwAACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: J. J. CrooksAfro-European Trade in the Atlantic World
Author: Silke StrickrodtPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847011101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce.
Where the Negroes Are Masters
Author: Randy J. SparksPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674727762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic’s webs of exchange. Where the Negroes Are Masters brings to life the outpost’s feverish commercial bustle and continual brutality, recovering the experiences of the entrepreneurial black and white men who thrived on the lucrative traffic in human beings. Located in present-day Ghana, the port of Annamaboe brought the town’s Fante merchants into daily contact with diverse peoples: Englishmen of the Royal African Company, Rhode Island Rum Men, European slave traders, and captured Africans from neighboring nations. Operating on their own turf, Annamaboe’s African leaders could bend negotiations with Europeans to their own advantage, as they funneled imported goods from across the Atlantic deep into the African interior and shipped vast cargoes of enslaved Africans to labor in the Americas. Far from mere pawns in the hands of the colonial powers, African men and women were major players in the complex networks of the slave trade. Randy Sparks captures their collective experience in vivid detail, uncovering how the slave trade arose, how it functioned from day to day, and how it transformed life in Annamaboe and made the port itself a hub of Atlantic commerce. From the personal, commercial, and cultural encounters that unfolded along Annamaboe’s shore emerges a dynamic new vision of the early modern Atlantic world.
Legal Histories of the British Empire
Author: Shaunnagh DorsettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317915747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.
A New World of Labor
Author: Simon P. NewmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier
Author: Steven M. BaulePublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776. The Royal Irish was one of the most wide-ranging regiments in America, with companies serving on the Illinois frontier, at Fort Pitt, and in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with some companies taken as far afield as Florida, Spanish Louisiana, and present-day Maine. When the regiment was returned to England in 1776, some of the officers remained in America on staff assignments. Others joined provincial regiments, and a few joined the American revolutionary army, taking up arms against their king and former colleagues. Using a wide range of archival resources previously untapped by scholars, the text goes beyond just these officers’ service in the regiment and tells the story of the men who included governors, a college president, land speculators, physicians, and officers in many other British regular and provincial regiments. Included in these ranks were an Irishman who would serve in the U.S. Congress and as an American general at Yorktown; a landed aristocrat who represented Bath as a member of Parliament; and a naval surgeon on the ship transporting Benjamin Franklin to France. This is the history of the American Revolutionary period from a most gripping and everyday perspective. An epilogue covers the Royal Irish’s history after returning to England and its part in defending against both the Franco-Spanish invasion attempt and the Gordon Rioters. With an essay on sources and a complete bibliography, this is a treat for professional and amateur historians alike.