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The Ashanti Empire or kingdom was situated in modern-day Ghana on the western coast of Africa. First established in the late 1600s, the empire flourished in the mid-1700s corresponding with the rise of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois), "Ashanti began its conquests in 1719 and grew with the slave trade."
- ↑ The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
- ↑ The History of the World; a Survey of a Man's Record