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Some Materials on the Early Guinea Coast in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

David Henige
David Henige*
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University of Wisconsin
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 1976 , pp. 25 - 28
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1976

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1 For surveys of this period see Daaku, K. Y., Trade and politics on the Gold Coast. 1600-1720 (Oxford, 1970), 16-7; Georg Nørregard, Danish settlements in West Africa, 1658-1850 (Boston, 1966), 17-28; W. W. Claridge, A history of the Gold Coast and Ashanti (2 vols.: London, 1915), 1: 101-18.Google Scholar

2 Henige, D. P., “Two sources for the history of the Guinea coast, 1680-1699”, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 5 (1972), 271-5; idem, “A new source for English activities on the Gold Coast, 1681-1699”, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 13 (1973), 257-60.Google Scholar

page 26 note1 Hair, P. E. H., “Barbot, Dapper, Davity: a critique of sources on Sierra Leone and Cape Mount”, History in Africa, 1 (1974), 25-54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 26 note2 Nørregard, Danish settlements, 32-4. There are fifty-four letters from Fort Royal to Cape Coast between 1691 and 1695 in the Rawlinson collection.

page 26 note3 Henige, , “The James Phipps papers in the Public Record Office”, African Research and Documentation, no.2 (1973), 9-11.Google Scholar

page 26 note4 Labat spoke of “les voyages qu'il (des Marchais) a faits en Afrique”, Voyage, ii. It is not unlikely that des Marchais may have made even more voyages than the two for which we presently have documentation.

page 27 note1 Akinjogbin, I. A., “Archibald Dalzel: slave trader and historian of Dahomey”, Journal of African History, 7 (1966), 67-68.Google Scholar

page 27 note2 Priestley, Margaret, “Philip Quaque of Cape Coast” in P. D. Curtin, ed., Africa Remembered (Madison, 19-68), 99-139.Google Scholar

page 27 note3 Henige, , “Komenda Fort in 1778: a document with commentary”, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 14 (1974), forthcoming.Google Scholar