The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate Versions of this chapter have been presented at the African Studies Association annual Conference, Indianapolis, 2014; the American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York, 2015; the “After Slavery: Comparing the Caribbean and Africa” conference at Leibnitz University, Hanover, 2013; the Ghana Studies Association Annual Conference, Kumasi, Ghana, 2013; at the Center for African Studies, University of Wisconsin, 2014; and at the History Seminar at San Francisco State University, 2015 and at the Social History of Africa Seminar at Standford University, 2016. My special thanks to Thomas Spear, Kwasi Konadu, James Sweet, Lindsay Ehrisman, Mohammad Salama, Neil Kodesh, Emily Callaci, Mary Owusu, Akosua Adoma Perbi, Wilhelmina Donko, Kofi Baku, Rebecca Shumway, Sarah Curtis, Rebecca Shumway, Steffen Runkel, Marc Stein and Richard Roberts for their comments and assistance.