Shumway's work is important in that it expands our understanding of Fante's evolution over the eighteenth century and thereby develops a more thorough understanding of the causes and consequences of the rise of Atlantic trade along the Gold Coast. H-NET Offers an important new analysis of the interaction of Fante and European societies in the ... Read morelong eighteenth century. Such work has been long overdue...This is a significant contribution to the literature which all serious scholars of the subject will want to engage with. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This is a rich study, carefully conceived and argued. H-AFRICA [A] significant contribution...Shumway argues her case with an abundance of carefully marshalled evidence. LUCAS BULLETIN A valuable contribution to the history of modern-day Ghana. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW Rebecca Shumway's The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an elegantly written masterpiece of a crucial period in West African history when a coastal belt of European slave forts and African chiefdoms consolidated new forms of fetishism and political economy. ANTHROPOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY This is a rich study, carefully conceived and argued. H-AFRICA [A] significant contribution. . . . Shumway argues her case with an abundance of carefully marshaled evidence. LUCAS BULLETIN A valuable contribution to the history of modern-day Ghana. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW Rebecca Shumway's The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an elegantly written masterpiece of a crucial period in West African history when a coastal belt of European slave forts and African chiefdoms consolidated new forms of 'fetishism' and political economy. ANTHROPOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY Show Less