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colony. The king had no personal ties to the colony and saw it as a drain on his kingdom's resources. By this time the Brandenburg African Company had lost all but one of its ships at the colony due to Dutch and French plundering, and competition primarily with a growing Dutch presence in the area
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and ostrich feathers trade. Yet shortly after its founding, it was soon realized that the greatest profits could only be made from human cargo trade as gold had eventually run scarce in the area, so the focus of the colony was put almost exclusively on trading slaves.
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Prussia was the last major European power, and first German state, to enter transatlantic trade. It was relatively isolated from major European trade hubs at the time, so the incentive existed to enter transatlantic trade and fortify the Prussian economy.
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On 15 January 1701, the small colony was renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements, in connection with the founding of the Kingdom of Prussia, which formally took place three days later, when
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From 1711 to April 1712 the Dutch occupied Fort Dorothea. In 1717 the Prussian Gold Coast colony was physically abandoned by Prussia; from then until 1724
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as a colony to which it could transport human cargo, and thus a transatlantic trade between the Prussian Gold Coast and the Caribbean was born.
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Sutton, Angela (2014). "Competition and the Mercantile Culture of the Gold Coast Slave Trade in the Atlantic World Economy, 1620-1720".
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The colony was founded for many reasons: for Prussia to increase its gold reserves, to supply slaves for Prussia's entry in the
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Accada and Hollandia: pg. 252. New Cambridge Modern History Atlas, H.C. Darby and Harold Fullard
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lowered Prussian revenues. Prussia’s slave output was, at its peak, less than a quarter of the
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Accada and Hollandia: p.252. New Cambridge Modern History Atlas, H.C. Darby and Harold Fullard
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Walter, Rodney (1969). "Gold and Slaves on the Gold Coast".
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colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it became a
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colony consisting of two Gold Coast settlements on the
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Forts of the former European colonial powers on the
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Index

Flag of Brandenburger Gold Coast
Location of Groß-Friedrichsburg within Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana, marked by the black dot and flag.
Gold Coast
Inside Groß-Friedrichsburg. View in February 1884.
Brandenburger colony
Prussian colony
Groß Friedrichsburg
German
Akan
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
Akan religion
Elector of Brandenburg
King of Prussia
Frederick William
Frederick I
Frederick William I
Dutch Gold Coast
Ghana
Gold Coast

Bonos
Bono state
Fantes
Mankessim Kingdom
Ashantis
Ashanti Empire
Dagombas
Kingdom of Dagbon
Danes

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