Selling Indian corn on the streets of Cape Coast Castle, 187

Natives selling Indian corn in the streets of Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British on the Gold Coast. This was sketched during the 2nd Ashantee War (1873-74). In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874

Acing Asanti Ashantee Attacked Corn Decades Declared Ghana Kumasi Officially Sketched Uneasy Virtually

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