European arrival in West Africa and the Gold Coast: Portuguese, Dutch and British, 1440-1680 -- Akan and the formation of the Asante state -- Slave trading and trade routes on the Gold Coast: the fight for the coast line, 1770-1820 -- Gold Coast, abolition laws and the era of illegal slave trading, 1776-1842 -- Economic transition within greater Asante in the mid-nineteenth century -- Asante-British treaties and conflicts, 1817-1874.
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