- Akwamu
The Akwamu was a state set up by the
Akan people inGhana which existed in the 1600s and 1700s.cite web |url= http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005314/Akwamu|title= Akwamu|accessdate=2007-03-28 |work= Britannica Online|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc] Originally immigrating fromBono state , the founders settled in Twifo-Heman.cite web |url= http://www.ghana.co.uk/history/history/tribes2.htm|title= The Akwamu|accessdate=2007-03-28 |work= Ghana.co.uk] In 1693, theAsimani of Akwamu lead a raid and seizedOsu Castle (currently the seat of the Ghanaian government), from the Danish colonists.cite web |url= http://www.ghanacastle.gov.gh/ |title= Ghana Castle |accessdate=2007-03-28 |work= ghanacastle.gov.gh|publisher=Government of Ghana] The Akwamu sold it back a year later, but retained the keys to the castle, and still have them as of 2007.In the 1720s the King of Akwanu began selling many of his subjects. This lead to civil war and the state's disintegration. Most of the King's allies were sold away as slaves and ended up on the Caribbean Island of St. John where they fomented a revolt. [Hartman, Saidiya. "Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route". (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) p. 91-93]
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Rulers of the Akan state of Bono-Tekyiman References
Further reading
*cite book |last= Dantzig|first= Albert van|coauthors= Barbara Priddy|title= A short history of the forts and castles of Ghana |year=1971 |publisher= Liberty Press|location= Accra|isbn=
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