Ashantee

I'm actually currently writing a paper on ethnological display of Africans in Europe in relation to the Peter Altenberg's "Ashantee" a very strange work, I might add.

Do They See What I See?: Teaching Visual History and Inadvertently Recycling Racism Anxious Black Woman 2008

Dupuis ( "Ashantee," 1824) suggests that, like "Takrúr," it is an obsolete Moslem term for the 660 miles of maritime region between Cape Lahu and the Rio Formoso or the Old

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Of course he said he was regum progenies, a descendant of Ashantee kings.

The Virginians 2006

Yoruba, Accra, Ashantee, and Timmanee, and even of the great Kaffir class of dialects, which reaches from the equator to the

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The causes that led to the “Ashantee Campaign,” a negro copy of the negroid Abyssinian, may be broadly laid down as general incuriousness, local mismanagement, and the operation of unprincipled journalism.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

And as for the other trade stuffs, they have naturally for years drained into the markets of the French Soudan; instead of through such a country as Ashantee, into the markets of the English Gold Coast; and so unless we run a railroad up to encourage the white traders to go inland, and make a market that will attract these trade routes into Coomassie, we shall be a few years hence singing out

Travels in West Africa 2003

It is to be hoped it will soon enter into the phase of construction, for it is a return to the trade (from which it draws its entire revenue) that the local government owes, and owes heavily; and if our new acquisition of Ashantee is to be developed, it must have a railway bringing it in touch with the Coast trade, not necessarily running into Coomassie, but near enough to

Travels in West Africa 2003

Individual women might sometimes, and even often, become the warrior chief of a tribe; the King of Ashantee might train his terrible regiment of females; and men might now and again plant and weave for their children: but in the main, and in most societies, the division of labour was just, natural, beneficial; and it was inevitable that such a division should take place.

Woman and Labour 2003

In Ashantee he has priests, and of course human sacrifice.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Strong enough to hold its own with its neighbor Ashantee, its area is somewhat small, being contained within three hundred and sixty leagues from north to south, and one hundred and eighty from east to west.

Robur the Conqueror 2003