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  • 24 - Introduction:

  • from Part Five - Administrative Records
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 265-266

  • Summary

    Analyses of textbooks that were written during the early part of the twentieth century for use in the colonies can, in fact, reveal a great deal about the ways in which both European officials and African educators sought to use history in the context of colonialism. The slave trade is a particularly interesting topic for review. While early textbooks in the Gold Coast generally treated the slave trade only briefly and did not provide any remarkable details about it, E. J. P. Brown's book Gold Coast and Asianti Reader was an important exception. The overall goal of Brown's text was certainly in line with a nationalist agenda, particularly in its focus on African agency. After announcing his intent to focus on the slave trade in the subtitle, he went on to explain that Birempon Kwadwo was a prominent member of the elite coastal African trading community during the slave trade.