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Negotiating Local Tastes in the 19th and 20th Centuries Global Trade in Amedeka, Southeastern Ghana. (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper looks at local taste practices in southeastern Ghana during the 19th and 20th centuries, using Black feminist and Indigenous archaeology perspectives. Despite the end of the Atlantic Slave trade, the internal trade of enslaved people continued until the 1850s. During this time, the demand for botanical commodities like...