El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900

Abstract

Geological structures and the location of in Ghana traditional mining in the southwestern Akan region - African states, technology, political economy and gender the Wassa gold rush of 1877-1885 - African and European promoters of mining capitalism barriers to production in the 1880s - capitalization, technology, labour recruitment and transportation the colonial government and the expanding miners frontier - pressures for mining district administration, health services and transport improvements overcoming the odds - labour, technology, management and production at the bit three Wassa mining companies 1883-1897 retrospect and aftermath -mining frontiers, capitalism, labour and the colonial state.