18th century in Ghana

Prussian colony located in modern Ghana, 1683-1721

Dutch possession in Western Africa between 1598 and 1872

state set up by Akan people that flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries

fortified colonial trade post in Ghana

Danish trading fort

Cassare or calissare (from Portuguese casar, "to marry") was the term applied to the marriage alliances, largely in West Africa, set up between European and African slave traders; the "husband" was European and the wife/concubine African. This was not marriage under Christian auspices, although there might be an African ceremony; there were few clerics in equatorial Africa, and the "wives" could not marry since they had not been baptized. Male monogamy was not expected. As such, concubinage is a more accurate term. The multinational Quaker slave trader and polygamist, Zephaniah Kingsley purcha

chartered company operating in the British gold coast