Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana , that arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century β the decade between and , until the midth century, circa , when Ghana attained its independence.
Many Euro-Africans also owned farms and hamlets further inland on peri-urban plains and rural locales. Euro-Africans were noted for their literacy, having benefited from a European-type formal education at the castle schools at Christiansborg and Cape Coast , both opened in the seventeenth century, as well as the government school at Elmina Castle which was opened in Early generations of Euro-Africans went to Europe for higher education.
The then emerging clergy and catechist class had educated "mulattos" among its ranks. Oral accounts indicate that coastal mulatto men had a perceived reputation of marital instability and philandering even though the native religions permitted polygamy.
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Education and literacy [ edit ]. Participation in public discourse [ edit ]. Social perceptions [ edit ]. Notable Gold Coast Euro-Africans [ edit ]. Euro-African unions [ edit ]. Selected descendants of Euro-Africans [ edit ]. Gallery [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Archived from the original on 8 September Retrieved 21 June Reindorf's History of the Gold Coast and Asante.
