Abrem Stool: a contribution to the history and historiography of Southern Ghana

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Title:	Abrem Stool: a contribution to the history and historiography of Southern Ghana
Author:	Henige, David P.
Year:	1973
Periodical:	International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:	6
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-18
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	Abrem polity historiography
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/216970
Abstract:	The stool of Abrem, or Berase, today consists of the towns of Abrem-Agona, Ankasi, Samang, Berase, and Esiam, all of which are located about eight miles inland and due north of Elmina, Ghana. During the twentieth century, except for a brief period between 1961 and 1966 when it was raised to paramount status, Abrem has been officially recognized only as a substool of Oguaa (Cape Coast) paramount stool. This note purports to gather together the more important notices of Abrem in the Portuguese, Dutch and British records and to assess the traditional accounts of Abrem stool history in the light of these records. A new look at the primary sources is particularly necessary, since because Abrem was not able to maintain a separate and paramount identity into this century, references to it in earlier European records have often been misconstrued by modern interpreters. Notes.