page_title: Coromantee
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Coromantee / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Captain John Stedman: A negro hung by his ribs from a gallows, 1792
context_page_description: Coromantee, Coromantins, Coromanti or Kormantine was the English name for enslaved people from the Akan ethnicity from the Gold Coast in modern Ghana. The term was primarily used in the Caribbean and is now considered archaic.
caption: An engraving by William Blake illustrating "A negro hung by his ribs from a gallows," from Captain John Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1792.
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