Ashanti and the Gold Coast: and what We Know of it
Author: Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 118
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Author: Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Walton Claridge
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 694
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jarvis L. Hargrove
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-12-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0739187864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: John Charles Dalrymple Hay
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781019462447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the history, culture, and society of the Ashanti people and the Gold Coast region of Africa through this fascinating account by Scottish explorer John Charles Dalrymple Hay. With firsthand observations and insights, this work illuminates a complex and dynamic part of the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 1800
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Toyin Falola
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1580462960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era.
Author: Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1451603738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.