Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
by
Pernille Ipsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women...