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Conference Attendee

Ghana Reflections: Marty Ross

The conference marked the 200th anniversary of Great Britian’s abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, but there was also a contingent of scholars of Scandinavian colonial history and geography, shown here on the misty terrace of the Elmina Beach Resort hotel. From left, Daniel Hopkins, from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who studies the Danish establishments here in Ghana, between the capital city of Accra and the Volta River; Selena Winsnes, a Norwegian-American editor and translator of several important works on the Danish establishments on the Guinea Coast; and Erik Gøbel, senior researcher at the National Archives in Copenhagen, an authority on Denmark’s precedent-setting abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Not pictured are Yaw Bredwa-Mensah, of the University of Ghana at Legon, who specializes in the archaeology of the Danish plantations, and Irene K. Odotei, president of the Historical Society of Ghana, who has also done research in the African colonial archives in Copenhagen.