Gold Coast (Ghana)

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Gold Coast (Ghana) was the British colonial territory on the Gulf of Guinea that later became modern Ghana and served as a major center of the transatlantic slave trade, profoundly shaping African diasporic cultures such as the Gullah.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gold Coast (Ghana) canonical 1
Gold Coast (former name of Ghana) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former British colony
historical region
capital Accra
colonialPower Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom
contains Accra
Ashanti Region
British Togoland (after union)
Cape Coast
Kumasi
Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
Sekondi-Takoradi
linked to: Takoradi
currency British West African pound
dateDissolved 1957-03-06
earlierColonialPresence Brandenburg-Prussia
Danish-Norwegian realm
linked to: Denmark–Norway

Dutch Republic
Portuguese Empire
Sweden
endTime 1957
followedBy Ghana
formerColonyType Crown colony
governedBy Governor of the Gold Coast
hasEthnicGroup Akan peoples
linked to: Akan people

Dagomba
Ewe
Ga-Adangbe
Guan peoples
Mamprusi
linked to: Mamprusi people

Mossi
hasFort Cape Coast Castle
Elmina Castle
Fort Christiansborg (Osu Castle)
linked to: Fort Christiansborg

Fort St. Anthony
Fort St. Jago
importantFor African diaspora history
independenceFrom United Kingdom
independenceResult creation of Ghana
influencedCulture African American culture
Caribbean cultures
Gullah people
linked to: Gullah
languageUsed Akan languages
linked to: Akan language

English
Ga language
legalSystem English common law
locatedIn Gulf of Guinea
West Africa
locatedOn Atlantic Ocean
majorExport cocoa
enslaved Africans
gold
timber
notableLeader Kwame Nkrumah
notableMovement Gold Coast independence movement
notablePoliticalParty Convention People's Party
United Gold Coast Convention
partOf British Empire
predecessorOf Ghana
religion African traditional religions
Christianity
Islam
significantFor transatlantic slave trade
startTime 1821
wasPartOf British West Africa

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gullah hasCulturalInfluenceFrom Gold Coast (Ghana)
Saltpond formerNameOfCountryContext Gold Coast (former name of Ghana)
linked to: Gold Coast (Ghana)