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Type:
Articles
Place:
Ghana
Daccubie Plantation
Daccubie Plantation (Ghana)
Date:
1993
Danish Settlements, 1659-1850
Notes:
Danish commercial ventures on the Gold Coast spanned two centuries from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. Trading posts established along the coast were strictly mercantile enterprises; no efforts were made to explore inland, much less to colonize. Interactions between Europeans and Africans were thus very circumscribed, and the archaeological record confirms this conclusion.
DeCorse describes several of the Danish sites along Ghana's coast: Frederickborg, Christiansborg Castle, and Daccubie plantation. In 1987 a survey and excavation of the Daccubie plantation site were undertaken, which reconfirm DeCorse's argument that these contact settings "provide insight into only a small component of the complex picture of change in the African societies of the Gold Coast between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries" (page 169).
