Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during
the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807. The history of Ghana
attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and
marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of
Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has
been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B.
DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente
cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride-are well known.
Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists
because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious
monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina
Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the
horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the
Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade explores the
fascinating history of the transatlantic slave trade on Ghana's
coast between 1700 and 1807. Here authorRebecca Shumway brings to
life the survival experiences of southern Ghanaians as they became
both victims of continuous violence and successful brokers of
enslaved human beings. The era of the slave trade gave birth to a
new culture in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving
birth to new cultures across the Americas. The Fante and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade pushes Asante scholarship to the
forefront of African diaspora and Atlantic Worldstudies by showing
the integral role of Fante middlemen and transatlantic trade in the
development of the Asante economy prior to 1807. Rebecca Shumway is
assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
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