The Men Who Walked Among Us — and Sold Us | Bannerman and Richter

Two families cast long shadows across Osu and Accra: Bannerman and Richter.
James Samuel Bannerman — born 1790 in Cape Coast — was the son of a Scottish trader and a Gã mother. He was one of us. He spoke our languages. He understood our ways. Yet he became one of the wealthiest slave owners on the entire Gold Coast. When Britain moved toward abolition in the 1840s, he wrote directly to Parliament, arguing that freeing enslaved people would ruin the coast and claiming he had an absolute right to keep human beings as "property". He did not see them as people. He saw them as wealth.

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