Author: Römer, Ludewig Ferdinand [or Røme, Ludevig Ferdinand].
Title: Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea, Indeholdende: Beskrivelse I. Om Kysten i Almindelighed. II. Om Europaeiske Nationers Handel der. III. Om Negrenes Religion. IV. Om Negrenes Historie, Saeder og Levemaade. V. Om os Danske, vores Forter og Etablissements.
Description: Kiøbenhavn, Ludolph Henrich Lillies Enke, 1760. [32],348,[2] pp. Engr. frontispiece (portrait of the author), 1 fold. engraved map of the Guinea coast & 3 fold. engr. views depicting Danish military forts along the coast of Guinea. Contemporary mottled calf (Cat’s Paw), spine raised in compartments & richly gilt. 12mo. - Spine & corners sl. rubbed. - Overall a very good copy with all the plates in very good condition. * Scarce work on the Gold Coast, only 8 copies recorded on Worldcat. - Ludewig Ferdinand Rømer (9 January 1714 - 17 April 1776) was a Danish merchant and sugar-baker. He came to the Danish Gold Coast in an early age where he was a senior assistant (overassistent) when seeking refuge at a British fortress in 1744 when governor Jørgen Billsen wanted to arrest him in connection with a controversy among members of the Danish colonial administration. He then returned to Denmark where he wrote a number of complains to the Danish West India Company. He was licensed as a merchant of the Danish Gold Coast and returned to Africa on board the ship Wilhelmine Galej in 1746. He was promoted to overkøbmand before returning to Denmark. He remained connected to the Danish colonies through his involvement with Det Københavnske Brødresocietet. Rømer is now mainly remembered for his books on the Danish Gold Coast. In 1756, he published Tilforladelig Efterretning om Negotien paa Kysten Guinea (German translation in 1758). It was followed by Tilforladelig Efterretning om Kysten Guinea in 1760 (German translation in 1769). This work, offered here, contains a foreword by the theologian Erik Pontoppidan in which he claims that black slavery is not incompatible with Christian commandments. The Danish historian Georg Nørregård has characterized Rømer's books as overwhelmingly unreliable. Römer did, however, have good local sources and the books contain valuable information about the history of the Ashanti tribeshistorie. The historian Ivor Wilks has described his works as one of the best sources of insight into the nature of coastal Ghanaian society in the eighteenth Century.[Source: Wikipedia]. # Bell R379; For the German edition see Kainbacher, I,170.

Keywords: Ethnography Africa Ghana Guinea Slavery Etnografie Afrika Slavernij