A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century : the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade : Book 1

This book examines the cultural and social history of the Gold Coast presenting an analytical and theoretical perspective on the Atlantic African side of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and proposes an approach to an understanding of early modernity. Part One: Texts. Chapter 1: Hans Lykke of Osu. Hermeneutics. A death-wish. Writing Hans Lykke. History continues. Noete/Note Doku. Klama and Kpele hermeneutics. Dominion. The Akwamu factor. The lumo and the company. The lumo as ma?nyo. Akwamu politics. Rebellion. A counter-narrative. Rebellion. Life and death. The idea of Hans Lykke Chapter 2. History, commerce, and texts. Texts and commerce. The ordering of things. Texts and Gold Coast history. Labor. Work as a condition of life. A mason's imagination. History as critique. The question of the present. Identifying the authors. An historical imagination. Imaginaries. The imaginative dimension in history. Counter-factual yearning Part Two: Service. Chapter 3: The company's servant: Sodsha Duomoro. Social and trading capital. Biography and Atlantic slaving. A cognitive and social order. A politics of location. The son of a famous man. Household property. Working for the company. Cultural and symbolic capital. Values and meanings. The aesthetics and metaphysics of power. The cultural domain of Coutymer. The politics of property. A life in the eighteenth century Part Three: Resistance. Chapter 4: Subalterns and social struggle. Rethinking what we know. "History to the defeated". Social transcripts. Places of sanctuary. Subalterns. "Plundering on the general road". Unmastered men. "His master should never get another day's work out of him". Social inversion. Liminality and history. Agency and the terrain of social struggle Chapter 5: A rebel and an abolitionist. "Giving import to lives on the margins". Atlantic slaving and historical agency. Kwasi the blacksmith and rebel. Mutiny in Christiansborg castle. Plotting rebellion on St. Croix. A life of defeat. ''Life is fury''. Life in Edwumako-Asene. Enslavement. Confronting history in the idea of abolition. The modernity of the unimaginable. A CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORYOF GHANA FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The Gold Coastin the Age of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Book 1 2 Copyright Page 3 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Foreword 12 Acknkowledgements 17 Introduction 20 Part One: Texts 38 Chapter One: Hans Lykke of Osu 40 Chapter Two: History, Commerce, and Texts 134 Part Two: Service 232 Chapter Three: The Company's Servant: Sodsha Duomoro 234 A CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORYOF GHANA FROM THE SEVENTEENTHTO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The Gold Coastin the Age of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Book 2 371 Part Three: Resistance 374 Chapter Four: Subalterns and Social Struggle 376 Chapter Five: A Rebel and an Abolitionist 484 Glossary 524 Endnotes 538 Abbreviations and Bibliography 668 Index 710