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The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast: The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807–1875

The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast: The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807–1875
Author: Jarvis L. Hargrove
Price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0739187864
ISBN-13: 9780739187869
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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.