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K ing Osai K o jo o f the A shan ti K ingdom holds cou rt
around 1765. His immediate predecessors had carved out a
kingdom o f 14,000 square miles. War was a steady, thriving
business, and the slaves they sold provided much wealth.
The Gold Coast was so named because the Ashanits mined
and worked gold, making beautiful works o f art.
The King received a tax from the riches including slaves, but
he was lim ited to 3,333 slaves at one tim e. C on trary to the
custom o f the New W orld, the slaves held by A fricans, had
many rights including marriage and holding property. They
could own slaves and even become the heirs o f their masters.
Robert Singstacke Abbott (1870-1940)
PIONEER PUBLISHER. Born on St. Simons Is
land, off the Georgia coast, he attended Hampton
Institute in Virginia and earned his law degree from
Kent Law Schoo, in Chicago in 1899. He was the
founder and editor of The Chicago Defender, an ar
ticulate voice of Chicago's Black population with a
circulation of 250,000 copies by 1929. For 15 years
his strong editorials contended for social, political,
and economic justice and encouraged Blacks to
seek better lives away from the Deep South.
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