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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    Report on the condition of the British Settlements on the West Coast of Africa.
    (1865-03-29) The House of Commons
    Copy “of the Report of Colonel Ord, the Commissioner appointed to Inquiry into the Condition of the British Settlements on the West Coast of Africa.’’
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    Report from the Select Committee on Papers Relating to the African Forts
    (The House of Commons, London., 1816-06-26) The House of Commons
    The Committee to whom the several Papers which were presented to The House upon the 9th day of this instant May, from the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, were referred, to examine the Matter thereof, and report the same, with their observations thereupon, to The House; and to whom the Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, and the Copy of the Report of the Commissioners sent out by His Majesty’s Government, to investigate the state of the Settlements and Forts on the Coast of Africa, were also referred; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evidence taken before them to The House;- Have, pursuant to the Order of The House, examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following Report:
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    Report from the Committee on African Forts
    (The House of Commons, 1817-06-25) The House of Commons
    The Committee, to whom the Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, was referred, to examine the Matter thereof, and report the same, as it should appear to them, with their observations thereupon, to The House; and to whom the Reports which upon the 13th and 26th days of June, in the last Session of Parliament, were made from the Committee appointed to examine the Matters of the several Papers, which were presented to The House upon the 9th day of May, 1816, from the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, were also referred;- Have, pursuant to the Order of the House, examined the Matters to them referred; and agreed to the following Report:
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    Ashantee War
    (1864-06-14) The House of Commons
    Copies or Extracts of any Despatches from the Governor of the Gold Coast explaining the cause of the War with the King of Ashantee; of any Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor of the Gold Coast, directing him to prosecute the War; Returns of the Expense already incurred in this War; and, of the Number of Officers and European Troops landed at Cape Coast Castle, and Date of Landing.