Thomas Edward Barter

Thomas Edward Barter was a Cape Coast trader during the 17th century.

Known locally as Tom Ewusi, he was born the son of Afro-European parents; what was then termed a mulatto.^[1] The Royal African Company sent him to England in 1690 for an education by his father. He returned to Cape Coast in 1693 and was employed as a middleman for the British. He became an independent trader and rose to prominence as the chief trader in Cape Coast.^[2][3]

References

1. De Graft Johnson, J. C. (July 1932). "The Fanti Asafu". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 5 (3): 307–322. doi:10.2307/1155452.
2. Holsey, Bayo (2008). Routes of remembrance: refashioning the slave trade in Ghana. University of Chicago Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-226-34976-4.
3. Northrup, David (2009). Africa's discovery of Europe: 1450-1850 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 120. ISBN 0-19-534053-1.