Talk:Gold Coast (region)

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This page contains some thing historicaly wrong. The Goldcoast was an English colony from the 19.th century.

Before that time the europeens did not have colonies on the Goldcoast, they had Forts of Trade, (maybe another word is used). (Handelsfort is used in Norwegian). Handelsfort i Ghana

The Forts of Trade were established by permission of the local autoryties; they were cooperators. The trade were important for both parts.

This is very important to get the right aspect of this part of the history and the slave trade.

In this page: pre-colonial time is described even as the 18.th century. --Krgj (talk) 22:13, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

"During that time, Lisbon leased the right to establish trading posts to individuals or companies that sought to align themselves with the local chiefs and to exchange trade goods both for rights to conduct commerce and for slaves whom the chiefs could provide. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, adventurers--first Dutch, and later English, Danish, and Swedish-- were granted licenses by their governments to trade overseas. On the Gold Coast, these European competitors built fortified trading stations and challenged the Portuguese. Sometimes they were also drawn into conflicts with local inhabitants as Europeans developed commercial alliances with local chiefs."

--Krgj (talk) 22:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

--- I rewrote the introduction. I should say that I know just about nothing about either the Gold Coast or Ghana. I once had a roomate from Ghana when I was in university though. The old version was grammaticly nonsensible. Now it is at least understandable. Please correct any factual mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.29.127.8 (talk) 21:00, 18 September 2015 (UTC)