Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast BISAC-YAN030020 boring and uninspiring

boring and uninspiring

Beneath Blossom Rain

and play better golf easier

to have faith in those around them and to find love

and cultural stoppers that have kept women from reaching their full potential

Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast BISAC-YAN030020 boring and uninspiringSeverine 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 who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold Coast traders going back nearly 150 years. In Daughters of