![]() ![]() Temne’s chief King Tom made a treaty with the self-governing citizens but when he died, the Koya Temne regent Naimbana could not read a new treaty that granted the newcomers claim to the land. Most were Christians, and they named their province Freedom. Sharp befriended Africans who had been in America and persuaded the British government to let them move to Sierra Leone in West Africa in 1787. In 1772 Granville Sharp helped a former slave from the West Indies to keep his freedom when his former master tried to claim him in the Somersett case that went to England’s Chief Justice Mansfield. Between 17 the British exported to West Africa 49,130,368 pounds of gunpowder and exported from West Africa slaves valued at £53,669,184. By then the Danish governor had died, and his successor paid the Asante to go home. The British tried to stop this war between Asante and Fante, but the Asante warriors went to the coast. In 1792 the Danish governor at Christiansborg asked Osei Kwame for Asante mercenaries to fight the Fante. A joint British military operation also captured Kommenda but in the 1783 peace treaty of Versailles the status quo was restored, though the one fort at Sekondi taken by the Dutch had been destroyed. Two British warships failed to take Elmina in 1780 but the next year Captain Shirley took the forts at Mori, Apam, Kormantine, and Beraku from the Dutch. During the Seven Years War, France tried and failed in 1757 to capture Cape Coast. Philip Quacoe returned in 1765 and for a half century taught children at Cape Coast. He did arrange for a few boys to go to London for an education. He studied the Fante language but was only able to baptize eight people before he left in 1756. Thomas Thompson arrived from America in 1752 to propagate the gospel. The Dutch supplied the Akwamu with muskets, cannons, and ammunition but Akan chiefs in Akyem, longtime enemies of the Abrade, sacked Nyanoase and killed the king, causing the Abrade royal family to take refuge in different directions.īy 1750 the British Parliament was paying £13,000 a year to maintain the forts. In 1726 a Dutch employee wrote that gold had become so scarce that the Gold Coast should be renamed the “Slave Coast.” In 1730 a conflict between the Akwamu king and his maternal uncle provoked rebellions among the Akwapim scarplands. By 1706 English ships had transported more than ten thousand captives in the last thirty months from Cape Coast. The Akwamu were disliked for robbing Akyem and Fante traders and selling them to the Dutch as slaves. ![]() The Akwamu tried to stop the raiding but eventually engaged in it themselves. On the Gold Coast in the 18th century trading for gold gave way to trading for slaves. Gold Coast and Slavery 1700-1807 Dahomey, Gold Coast, and Oyo to 1700 Liberia 1816-1950 This chapter has been published in the book Mideast & Africa 1700-1950.įor ordering information, please click here. West Africa and the British 1700-1950 by Sanderson Beck Gold Coast and Slavery 1700-1807 ![]()
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