Table of Contents:
  • Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa
  • Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality
  • Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents
  • Government strategies for assisting the mines
  • Labor agents, chiefs and officials, 1905-1909: the incorporation of the northern territories' labor reserve.