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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/EK00000254/00001
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- Abstract:
- Bound typescript copies of the papers of Brodie Cruickshank relating to West Africa. Includes: an account of the expedition to Appolonia, 1848; and letters from the 'Gold Coast' and 'Slave Coast', with an account of a mission to the King of Dahomey, April 1848-January 1849, with preface dated 18th January 1849 ( English,English,English )
- Summary:
- Typescript from orginals in the possession of J. C. Batley, Caterham, Surrey in 1971. Present location of originals is unknown.
- Content Advice:
- Includes (1) an account of the expedition to Appolonia, 1848 and (2) Letters from the 'Gold Coast' and 'Slave Coast', with an account of a mission to the King of Dahomey, together with a preface dated Preface dated 18 January 1849.
- Funding:
- Funded in part by SOAS University of London.
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Cruickshank, Brodie : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/55666977
- General Note:
- Fort Apollonia is a fort in Beyin, Ghana. The name Apollonia was given to the area by a Portuguese explorer who sighted the place on the Feast of Saint Apollonia, 9 February. -- The Swedes established a trading post at Apollona as part of the Swedish Gold Coast between 1655-1657. In 1691, a British trading post was erected at this site, which between 1768 and 1770 was extended into a fort. -- After the abolition of slave trade, the fort was abandoned in 1819, but it was again occupied from 1836 onward. -- The fort was transferred to the Dutch as part of a large trade of forts between Britain and the Netherlands in 1868, on which occasion it was renamed Fort Willem III, after King William III of the Netherlands. Four years later, however, on 6 April 1872, the fort was, along with the entire Dutch Gold Coast, again transferred to the United Kingdom, as per the Gold Coast treaty of 1871. -- Wikipedia
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Behanzin, King of Dahomey, approximately 1844-1906 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/69739830
- General Note:
- The kingdom captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against weaker societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol. -- In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British Royal Navy imposing a naval blockade against the kingdom and enforcing anti-slavery patrols near its coast. During this time period, Dahomey was also weakened by military defeat from Abeokuta, a Yoruba city-state which was founded as a safe haven for refugees escaping slave raids from Dahomey. -- Wikipedia
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Special Collections
- Rights Management:
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- MS 173088 ( soas classmark )
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