HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Twi, Akwamu, Denkyira
6 Jun 2020
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The height of the trans-atlantic slave trade. Since it was a political state it is not an ethnic state. Asante and the cold coast political history. Asante emerges a political state and not an ethnic state. It"s a political state that conquered what is now ghana. There are real terms for the positions and names. It is important because it was a major source of gold. No such thing as a slave they become enslaved. They did not lose their sense of self. The coast today is the country that is known as ghana, ashante came into being in about. 1700 as a major state in the interior of the gold coast, it was a state that would conquer most of the territory what is now modern ghana. Ashanti by origin wasn"t a akan state. The actual state as its height was a multicultural state.
