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Osei Tutu II has focused on cultural preservation and international engagement for Asante interests
Asante slavery differed from Atlantic slavery in that it was not hereditary and permitted integration into family structures over generations. War captives and those enslaved for debt formed the enslaved population. Many served household purposes or agricultural labor. Some rose to positions influencing state affairs as advisors or administrators. Enslaved women sometimes bore children integrated into free family lineages.
"Asante slavery: forms, functions, and integrationasante slavery differed from atlantic slavery in that it was not hereditary and permitted integration into family structures over generations."
"War captives and those enslaved for debt formed the enslaved population."
"Many served household purposes or agricultural labor."
"Some rose to positions influencing state affairs as advisors or administrators."
Gold dust served as money across Asante, measured with brass weights, scales and spoons whose forms...
On the Accra plains in August 1826 a broad coalition met the Asante army in one of the largest engag...
In January 1824 an Asante army destroyed a British force at Nsamankow and killed the governor of the...