The Panic Element in Nineteenth-Century British Relations with Ashanti

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Title:	The Panic Element in Nineteenth-Century British Relations with Ashanti
Author:	Collins, Edmund
Year:	1962
Periodical:	Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Volume:	5
Issue:	2
Pages:	79-144
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	Ashanti polity history colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405745
Abstract:	This paper aims at biting into recognitions a form of dangerous nervousness in the national character of nineteenth-century Britain, discernable in its attitude towards West African affairs, and interlocked with its humanitarian outlook. This strain manifests itself in three large scale courses of conduct involving British relations with West Africa: The abolition of the Slave Trade, enacted in 1807; the official adoption, publication and indoctrination of a myth concerning the moral characters of the peoples of the West African coast and hinterlands; the emergence of active hostility towards the great independent pagan states of the region. It is the topic of early nineteenth-century relations with the empire of Ashanti which is the object of this paper. References.