Ashanti Empire and other states in what is now Ghana were involved in the transatlantic slave trade
The Transatlantic slave trade and the Ashanti state in the 18th and 19th centuries
Gold, Slaves, and War: The Kingdom of Ashanti and the European Imperial Powers
During the colonial period, the Ashanti Empire and other states in what is now Ghana were involved in the transatlantic slave trade, which was largely controlled by European powers.
The Ashanti and other African states captured and sold enslaved people to European traders, who then transported them to the Americas to be sold as slaves on plantations.
It is important to note that the Ashanti Empire and other states in Ghana also had their own systems of slavery, and enslaved people were used for labor within the region.
The transatlantic slave trade, however, had a much larger impact on the region and the enslaved people were mostly captured for export to the Americas.
Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade: new perspectives on the African diaspora
Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade: new perspectives on the African diaspora
The Transatlantic slave trade and the Ashanti state in the 18th and 19th centuries," by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, in The Cambridge World History of Slavery, edited by Keith P. Featherstone, David Eltis, and Stanley L. Engerman, vol. 4.
"Gold, Slaves, and War: The Kingdom of Ashanti and the European Imperial Powers," by Ivor Wilks, Journal of African History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1991), pp. 1-28
"The Ashanti Empire and the Transatlantic Slave Trade," by Ivor Wilks, in The Cambridge History of Africa, edited by John E. Flint, vol. 8.
