Ransoming White Captives
An Episode in Anglo-Asante Relations, 1869-1874
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11203015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olatunji Ojo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-135 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-2258 • E-ISSN: 2163-9108 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/aeh.42.1.109 |
| OpenAlex | W1917422824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
In 1872, three years after Asante soldiers took four Europeans into captivity negotiations for their release had gone nowhere because the European contact agency, the British colonial administration in the Gold Coast, was reluctant to pay a huge ransom in exchange for the detainees’ release
Administration (probate law · Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Ethnology · Political science · Principle of legality · Ransom · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Africa Remembered
Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman Borders
The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’
Between abolition and Jihad
Settlement, trade and polities in the seventeenth century Gold Coast
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
The Image of Africa
The Last Resort
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1815
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
Fighting the Slave Trade
The “Elmina Note
Protecting Freeborn Muslims
Cervantes in Algiers
Four Years in Asante
Here is No Resisting the Country’. The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African ‘Slave Coast’
Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Slavery, Freedom, and Failed Ransom Negotiations in West Africa, 1730–1900
There Was an Elmina Note, But
Spanish Captives in North Africa in the Early Modern Age
A Vanished Dynasty
Christian Captives at "Hard Labor" in Algiers, 16th-18th Centuries
Economic Imperialism in West Africa
White Slaves, African Masters
Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain
Elmina and Greater Asante in the nineteenth century
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |