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Article: Christopher R. Decorse, An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900.(Book review)
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CHRISTOPHER R. DECORSE, An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press (hb 34.50 [pounds sterling]--1 56098 971 8). 2001, 286 pp.
Stretching over half a millennium, the modern history of the town of Elmina is among the best-documented in sub-Saharan Africa. But that immense documentation, as yet only partly explored by historians, was until recently produced almost exclusively by outsiders: principally by Europeans and a few Americans who visited the port town or worked in the adjoining 'castle' that was initially constructed by the Portuguese in 1482. Historical archaeologist ...
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