The Canoemen of the Gold Coast (Ghana). A Survey and an Exploration in Precolonial African Labour History.

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (115) ◽  
pp. 339-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Gutkind
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast ◽  
Labour History

To the Gold Coast for Gold

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Francis Burton ◽  
Verney Lovett Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast

The Gold Coast and the Slum.Harvey W. ZorbaughThe Ghetto.Louis Wirth

1929 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-487
Author(s):  
R. D. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast

PAWNSHIP, DEBT, AND ‘FREEDOM’ IN ATLANTIC AFRICA DURING THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE: A REASSESSMENT

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Lovejoy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
Congo River

AbstractA reassessment of the institution of pawnship in Africa for the period from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century tightens the reference to situations in which individuals were held as collateral for debts that had been incurred by others, usually relatives. Contrary to the assumptions of some scholars, pawnship was not related to poverty and enslavement for debt but rather to commercial liquidity and the mechanisms by which funds were acquired to promote trade or to cover the expenses of funerals, weddings, and religious obligations. A distinction is made, therefore, between enslavement for debt and pawnship. It is demonstrated that pawnship characterized trade with European and American ships in many parts of Atlantic Africa, but not everywhere. While pawnship was common north of the Congo River, at Gabon, Cameroon, Calabar, the interior of the Bights of Biafra and Benin, the Gold Coast, and the upper Guinea coast, it was illegal in most of Muslim Africa and the Portuguese colony of Angola, while it was not used in commercial dealings with Europeans at Bonny, Ouidah, and other places.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE GOLD COAST

1955 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
A. St. J. J. Hannigan
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Gold Coast
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