Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
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title:
Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
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The Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) was an African anti-colonialist organization formed in 1897 in the Gold Coast, as Ghana was then known. Originally established by traditional leaders and the educated elite to protest the Crown Lands Bill of 1896 and the Lands Bill of 1897, which threatened traditional land tenure, the Gold Coast ARPS became the main political organisation that led organised and sustained opposition against the colonial government in the Gold Coast, lay
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African anti-colonialist organization
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Aborigines%27_Rights_Protection_Society
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2023-08-23T19:13:05Z
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