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Title: | The Ankobra Gold Interest |
Author: | Van Dantzig, Albert |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 169-185 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | colonial history gold trade history 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41406524 |
Abstract: | An 'Ankobra gold interest can be said to be a recurrent factor in the history of trade and politics on the Gold Coast in the pre-colonial period of European contacts. The Ankobra river aroused a consistent interest among the Europeans and it was in the Ankobra area that Europeans, in particular the Portuguese and the Dutch, made some serious attempts to get full control of the gold trade by circumventing the African middlemen. Stories about these early attempts have been told and retold many times, which has led to serious confusion in modern literature, a confusion which the present author unravels in a survey of European activities in the Ankobra region from the sixteenth century to the 1720's. Notes. |