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	GOLD COAST - LoveToKnow Article on GOLD COAST
		Physical features.Though the lagoons common to the West African coast are found both at the western and eastern extremities of the colony (Assini in the west and Kwitta in the east) the greater part of the coast-line is of a different character.
		At this period, however, the home government, disgusted with the Gold Coast by reason of the perpetual disturbances in the protectorate and the trouble it occasioned, determined to abandon the settlements, and sent instructions for the forts to be destroyed and the Europeans brought home.
		The purchase of the Danish Pu ase forts in 1850, and of the Dutch forts and territory in 1871, led to the consolidation of the British power along the coast; and the Ashanti war of 187374 resulted in the extension of the area of British influence.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOLD_COAST.htm (6900 words)

	List of colonial governors in 1816 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Danish Gold Coast - Christian Schiønning, Governor of the Danish Gold Coast (1807-1817)
		Dutch Gold Coast - Abraham de Veer, Commandant-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (1810-Mar.
		1, 1816); Herman Willem Daenels, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (to 1818)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_in_1816 (875 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Ghana - Britain and the Gold Coast: The Early Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two major factors laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting instability and disruption of trade, and Britain's increasing preoccupation with the suppression and elimination of the slave trade.
		Local British, Dutch, and Danish authorities were all forced to come to terms with Asante, and in 1817 the African Company of Merchants signed a treaty of friendship that recognized Asante claims to sovereignty over large areas of the coast and its peoples.
		As responsibilities for defending local allies and managing the affairs of the coastal protectorate increased, the administration of the Gold Coast was separated from that of Sierra Leone in 1850.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/ghana/7.php (1348 words)

	WHKMLA : Danish Trade on the Gold Coast
		Late in the 18th century, ERNST SCHIMMELMANN, Danish Minister of Finance (1784-1813), suggested that the slave trade was declining and that Denmark should introduce a PLANTATION ECONOMY in it's African colonies.
		Danish and Norwegian ships, between 1660 and 1806, on a total og 340 transtalantic trips were assumed to have transported 85,000 to 100,000 slaves.
		The Danish trading posts were finally abandoned; in 1850 Denmark sold it's property and claims on the Gold Coast to Great Britain.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/gcdan.html (378 words)

	Archaeological Development in West Africa
		The two happy archaeologists in the photo - one Ghanian, one Danish - are standing on the foundation of the newly excavated one wall of the main building of the elusive so-called "Isert's Plantation " in the hills about 50 kms north of Accra, Ghana.
		Paul E. Isert (1756-1789) was a physician of Danish Fort Christiansborg (Accra) and indignant of the trade in African slaves for the plantations of America.
		A scientific evaluation of the agricultural experiments at Frederiksgave, the Royal Danish Plantation on the Gold Coast, Ghana.
	worldarchaeology.net /ghana/frederiksnopel.htm (873 words)

	British Empire: The Map Room: Africa: Gold Coast
		The jurisdiction of England on the Gold Coast was defined by the bond of the 6th of March 1844, an agreement with the native chiefs by which they and the crown received the right of trying criminals, repressing human sacrifice and other practices.
		The purchase of the Danish and Portugese forts in 1850, and of the Dutch forts and territory in 1871, led to the consolidation of the British power along the coast; and the Ashanti war of 1873-74 resulted in the extension of the area of British influence.
		For a time the Gold Coast formed officially a limb of the West African Settlements and was virtually a dependency of Sierra Leone.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/goldcoast.htm (920 words)

	Slave Castles
		Gold was perhaps the most precious metal sought after in those days, for it was the means of transaction in the European market as well as those of India and the Far East.
		So when it became known that there was a fertile and populous land beyond the seas, rich in gold and ivory called by the Moors, "The Land of the Blacks", King Henry the Navigator of Portugal made frantic efforts and got his men to reach and explore this fabulous land much fancied at that time.
		Thus, it is clear that the Gold Coast then appeared to all the European powers as the most favorable country from which they could carry out their trade more profitably than in any other African territory.
	www.theviproom.com /visions/slave.htm (1129 words)

	Colonial Heads of Danish Gold Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Established on the eastern Gold Coast (present-day Ghana): Fort Friedensborg (Ningo), Fort Christiansborg, Fort Augustaborg (Tshi), Fort Prinzenstein (Keta), Fort Konigenstein (Ada).
		Danish Gold Coast Settlements established on the eastern Gold Coast
		Gold Coast Settlements sold to Britain and incorporated into the Gold Coast Colony
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_Heads_of_Danish_Gold_Coast (99 words)

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		In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, the Gold Coast was one of the chief West African sources of slave export.
		The British abolished it in 1807, the Danish is 1804 and the Dutch in 1814.
		The Gold Coast became a British colony and the new government was known as the British Colony of Sierra Leone.
	www.essaycity.com /free_essays/00434.txt (512 words)

	To the Gold Coast for Gold - By Richard F. Burton [Authorama]
		The Appendix discusses at some length the various objections made to the Gold Coast mines by the public, which suffers equally from the ’bull’ and the ’bear’ and from the wild rumours set afloat by those not interested in the speculation.
		Gold and other metals are there in abundance, and there are good signs of diamond, ruby, and sapphire.
		On the Gold Coast of Western Africa, whence came the good old ’guinea,’ not a washing-cradle, not a pound of quicksilver was to be found in 1862; in 1882 five mining companies are at work; and in 1892 there will be as many score.
	www.authorama.com /book/gold-coast-for-gold.html (19803 words)

	To the Gold Coast for Gold - Chapter IV. (By Richard F. Burton)
		The exceeding dampness is shown by the rusting of iron and the tarnishing of steel almost as effectually as upon the West African coast.
		And when the Gold Mines shall be worked as they should be this island may fairly look forward to catch many a drop of the golden shower.
		This complete text of "To the Gold Coast for Gold" (Volume I) by Richard F. Burton is provided as free e-text and belongs to the public domain.
	www.authorama.com /gold-coast-for-gold-6.html (5475 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Ghan Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By 1471, under the patronage of Prince Henry the Navigator, they had reached the area that was to become known as the Gold Coast because Europeans knew the area as the source of gold that reached Muslim North Africa by way of trade routes across the Sahara.
		The initial Portuguese interest in trading for gold, ivory, and pepper, so increased, that in 1482 the Portuguese built their first permanent trading post on the western coast of present-day Ghana.
		Although there is no doubt that local rulers in West Africa engaged in slaving and received certain advantages from it, some scholars have challenged the premise that traditional chiefs in the vicinity of the Gold Coast engaged in wars of expansion for the sole purpose of acquiring slaves for the export market.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Ghana (760 words)

	Ghana History Timeline - historic overview of Ghana (Gold Coast), Africa
		With it's gold and accessible coastline "Ghana" becomes the centre of all European activity in West Africa.
		July 28, 1847: The Danish King decides to abolish slavery in Danish colonies: Children of slaves are from now born to freedom, but the parent-generation is not freed until 1848.
		Originally the colony was only a 100 km wide strip along the coast, but the British still seeks control of the Asante kingdom and their wealth of gold.
	crawfurd.dk /africa/ghana_timeline.htm (3880 words)

	History of GHANA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That cargo is gold, and the Gold Coast becomes the European name for this part of Africa.
		The trade in gold with the Europeans makes possible the development in the early 17th century of Akwamu, the first African state to control an extensive part of the coast.
		Nkrumah is invited back to the Gold Coast to become general secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention, an organization campaigning for self-government.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad43 (1131 words)

	European Imperialism, 1851-1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British had bought out the last of the Dutch and Danish trading forts and in the early 1870s had acquired a trading monopoly along the Gold Coast.
		European ivory hunters spoke of vast amounts of gold in Matabeleland, and with the help of a Reverend Helm, Rhodes tricked the Ndebele chieftain Lobengula in allowing Rhodes to take "whatever action" was necessary to exploit the minerals in Lobengula's kingdom.
		Gold was not found in quantity enough and Rhodes faced financial disaster.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h50.htm (7331 words)

	The British in West Africa
		Only a few spots in West Africa like the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast (modern Nigeria) offered enough profit to make them attractive in their own right and in the end, the British occupied only the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria.
		Gold was produced in the Volta River region as early as the 14th century, and Europeans began to trade along the "Gold Coast" in the 1440s.
		NOTE: The change in the Gold Coast's status from "protectorate" to "crown colony" meant that relations with the inhabitants of the region were handled by the Colonial Office, rather than the Foreign Office.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his312/lectures/brit-occ.htm (1778 words)

	Slave Castles and Diaspora of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although Ghana was originally called the Gold Coast in honor of one of its still abundant resources, an economic cornerstone of its markets quickly became the trade in human flesh- a characteristic unfortunately shared across the continent and especially with its neighbor, Dahomey (now Bein/Togo, then ruled by the Fon dynasty.
		When the first Europeans arrived in the late fifteenth century, many inhabitants of the Gold Coast area were striving to consolidate their newly acquired territories and to settle into a secure and permanent environment.
		Much of the conflict that arose among European groups on the coast and among competing African kingdoms was the result of rivalry for control of this trade.
	www.atidekate.com /Diaspora.htm (1701 words)

	Ghana THE COLONIAL ERA: BRITISH RULE OF THE GOLD COAST - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
		Military confrontations between Asante and the Fante contributed to the growth of British influence on the Gold Coast.
		The Gold Coast Colony, established on July 24, 1874, comprised the coastal areas and extended inland as far as the ill-defined borders of Asante.
		With the north under British control, the three territories of the Gold Coast--the Colony (the coastal regions), Asante, and the Northern Territories--became, for all practical purposes, a single political unit, or crown colony, known as "the dependency" or simply as the Gold Coast.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/ghana/ghana_history_the_colonial_era_british_rule_of_the_gold_coast.html (650 words)

	Gold Coast Htl Casino - Las Vegas Nevada Hotels - ASAPhotels.com
		The Gold Coast Hotel and Casino is a 711 room resort destination located one mile west of the strip and one-half mile from Chinatown.
		Surrounded by acres of free parking and two easy access parking garages, the Gold Coast also has a free shuttle bus that carries guests to and from its sister properties, the Barbary Coast on the Las Vegas Strip and the Orleans.
		The Gold Coast is the only location in Las Vegas with a million dollar keno game.
	reservations.asaphotels.com /hotel/10007205-11244071B.html (418 words)

	The slave ship Fredensborg - Danish-Norwegian slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The kingdom of Denmark-Norway was involved in trade on the Gold Coast for about two hundred years.
		Its first stronghold on the coast, Fort Fredriksborg, was built in 1660, close to Cape Coast Castle in Fetu.
		In the eighteenth century Christiansborg expanded its influence on the eastern Gold Coast, aiming ultimately at controlling trade at the Volta delta and beyond, on the western Slave Coast (today Togo and Benin).
	www.unesco.no /fredensborg/danish-norwegian_slave_trade/01.htm (311 words)

	Michigan State University Press \| Coast of Slaves \| Thorkild Hansen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It describes Danish purchase of islands in the West Indies, and traces how the decline in Dutch and British trade, and the abilities of the Danish administration led to a golden age in the Danish slave trade in the 1770s and 1780s.
		In that period, the Danish share in the total slave trade exceeded ten percent; and the decline in the trade with the growth of a new European consciousness, heralded abolition.
		Coast of Slaves, the first volume of the trilogy, was originally published in Danish in 1967.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=2332 (202 words)

	Kumm - Global Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ghana - or the Gold Coast, as it used to be known in colonial times - was the richest among Great Britain's colonies in West Africa.
		A number of promising African students were sent from the Gold Coast to study at universities in Great Britain and the United States.
		The upshot was that the former Gold Coast got its independence in 1957, first among the British colonies in Africa, and became Ghana, adopting its new name from an extinct African kingdom further north in Sahel, the West African Savannah.
	www.imfmetal.org /kumm/index.cfm?n=326&c=1759&l=2 (514 words)

	Gold Seal - West Coast Salmon History
		It could be said without too much danger of contradiction that the majority of the Canadian west coast's canneries which came and disappeared again could not have been put into operation without borrowing from this army of Oriental workers.
		Pilings and floats, it might be said here, have formed an indispensable foundation of almost every enterprise along the northwest coast right up to the present time.
		Native Indian families from up and down the coast migrated to Rivers and Smith Inlets each summer for the winter's "stake" to be made there.
	www.goldseal.ca /wildsalmon/salmon_history.asp?article=5 (4751 words)

	WHKMLA : Dutch Trade on the Gold Coast
		Dutch mercants established a trading post at MOURE on the Gold Coast in the dying years of the 16th century.
		The Gold Coast forts were important for the trade in both gold and African slaves, the latter a factor of growing importance due to the Caribbean sugar boom.
		In 1872, the Netherlands ceded (sold) it's property and claims on the Gold Coast to Britain, in return for Britain conceding the Sultanate of Aceh to the Netherlands (Sumatra Treatise).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/gcdut.html (739 words)

	Gold Coast City Council - Major Environmental Study for Gold Coast
		Friday, 7 November 2003 - The Gold Coast City Council has appointed consultants Sinclair Knight Merz to investigate measures to protect the internationally significant Moreton Bay wetlands from the impact of urban development in the Pimpama Coomera growth corridor.
		The study, to be completed by 2005, will assess the quantity and quality of treated water that can be safely released into the Pimpama River estuary.
		Gold Coast City Council PO Box 5042 Gold Coast MC 9729
	www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au /t_news_item.asp?PID=3207&status=Archived (464 words)

	Ghana in 1999
		All this activity was concentrated here because of the proximity of gold mines and because access to the interior was not hindered by lagoons and mangrove swamps as it was in other areas of the Guinea coast..
		Finally, negotiations led to the abandonment of Dutch holdings in the Gold Coast to the British in exchange of lands in northern Sumatra and other considerations and, on the sixth of April 1972, the Dutch flag was replaced by the Union Jack over Elmina Castle seen here from the east.
		The Gold Coast's climates, hot and humid in the south or hot and arid in the north, were not appreciated by potential British settlers who preferred the more pleasant climate of the Kenyan plateau.
	www.berclo.net /page99/99en-ghana.html (1953 words)

	History Department
		the former Gold Coast and the kingdom of Asante) in the period between the fifteenth and nineteenth century.
		He is currently working on a book which examines the social and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Gold Coast within the context of the Atlantic world.
		With reference to the latter, he has written on and is preparing articles on the relationship between the African diaspora in the Caribbean (especially the Danish Caribbean) and Europe.
	history.ucr.edu /people/kea/kea.html (231 words)

	Notes on documents from the trans-Atlantic slave trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		JJones collection Document 367, "Voyage of John Hawkins, 1793-1795" pp494-500 This document was written by John Hawkins, the supercargo on a slave trip from Charleston SC to the West African coast at Rio Pongo and Rio Nunez.
		(Don't confuse the country of the Republic of Guinea with the "Guinea Coast" of European trade.) p495 The footnote refers to a slave ship that belonged to the Charleston SC firm of Mann and Foltz, which sailed in 1803 under Danish registry and was captured by the French.
		"Windward Coast" means the coast between Senegal and Gold Coast, including the coast of modern Guinea.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/notes/donnan.htm (593 words)

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