Presto returns to Ghana

Blog recording the 2016 field trip to Ghana of Annemieke van der Vegt and Michel Doortmont, in search of the early life history and origins of the African boy known as Presto, and in later life as Christiaan van der Vegt, who was brought to the Netherlands from Ghana in the mid-1740s.

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View of St. George d'Elmina

View of St. George d'Elmina
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Blog archive

  • ▼  2016 (9)
    • ▼  August (6)
      • Looking for a hammock: A guest blog
      • Looking for a hammock: First results
      • Looking for a hammock
      • Boy-servants at Elmina Castle
      • Presto returns to Ghana: Where to begin? (II)
      • Procuring slave children on the Gold Coast (II): T...
    • ►  July (3)

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Use hashtag #PrestoInGhana. Active discussion during the trip

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Hoe heette Christiaan? (English summary)
Ghana and the Netherlands - Historical Notes
Gold Coast DataBase
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Affiliations and recognition

Research for this project was undertaken with the institutional support of the University of Groningen, the African Studies Centre at Leiden University, the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana at Legon, and the University for Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana.

Personal support and assistance was received from several Ghanaian, Dutch, British, and American colleagues and many people in and from Elmina.

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Accra Doura Angola Annemieke van der Vegt Antje van der Vegt Bakatue Festival Balthazar Coymans Bénin boy-servant branding Bridge House Cedron Christiaan Narcis Christiaan van der Vegt cloth Coast of Guinea Cocquamar Crenequie Coenraadsburg Congo Congo Loango Coridon Côte d'Ivoire Cupido Curacao Dahomey Elmina Focquenbroch Fortuin fringe Ghana Gold Coast hammock household huibert van Rijk Ivory Coast Jacob de Petersen Jan Pranger King Willem I Moors Musée du Quai Branly Paris Orange-Nassau Paa Kwesi Nduom palanNewspquin Palanquin plant fibre pompoms Presto Prince Willem V Prince-Stadtholder Princess Carolina Scheveningen slave trade St. Jago W.I.C. Weesp Wereldmuseum Rotterdam West Africa

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