Heritage Materials

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These materials consist primarily of the African, Furley and Folio collections which are being kept at the Africana section of the Balme Library, University of Ghana. Furley and Folio were Dutch writers in the colonial period in the history of Ghana

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The collection includes documentary materials relating to the history of Ghana, old books, maps, engravings, pamphlets and manuscripts but most of all archival material. Some portions of the Furley collection contains essays on the local history, customs histories and constitutions of the various tribes of the Gold Coast which was later published in two slim volumes by Welman on Ahanta and Peki

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Furley presented his enormous collection of documentary materials of various kinds to the library of the University College of the Gold Coast. After his death, his widow added to this collection some materials which Furley had collected in the last years of his life

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    Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the House of Commons
    (House of Commons, 1789) House of Commons
    Committee of the whole house to consider .of the Circumstances of the Slave Trade, complained of in the several Petitions which were presented to the House in the last Session of Parliament relative to the State of the African Slave Trade.
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    The Importance of the African Companys Forts and Settlements
    (House of Commons, 1745) House of Commons
    Being the Sense of the Royal African Company of England, in Conformity to That of the Nation in general, that the Trade to the Coast: of Africa ought always to continue free and open, for the Benefit of all his Majesty’s Subjects trading to those Parts; and also, that the Trade and Navigation to Africa in general should never be charged with any Tax, Duty, Burthen or other Incumbrance whatever for the Maintenance and Preservation of the Forts and Settlements
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    Proceedings of the Association, For Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
    (T. Cadell in the Strand, 1791) House of Commons
    THE Narrative of the Proceedings of the SOCIETY that was formed in the year 1788, for the purpose of Promoting the Discovery of the Inland Districts of Africa, was written, at the request of his Colleagues, by one of the Members of the Committee of that ASSOCIATON and is now printed at the desire, and for the use of the SOCIETY. But as it may also be read by persons unacquainted with the Origin and Object of the Undertaking to which it relates, the following Paper, as descriptive of both, is re... published for their information.