Slavery and its legacy in Ghana and the diaspora

Ghana - for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years - remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading.

The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its legacy for both Ghana and the descendants of people sold as slaves from the 'Gold Coast' in the era of the transatlantic slave trade.