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known as the Gold Coast because Europeans knew the area as the source of gold
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Mariano A on 23 Mar 10area had other valuable commodity apart from slaves
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initial Portuguese interest in trading for gold, ivory, and pepper
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suddenly expanded the demand for slaves in the Americas, trade in slaves soon overshadowed gold as the principal export of the area
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