death_date death_place religion birth_place birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
10 february 1850 elmina , dutch gold coast wesleyan church elmina , dutch gold coast 29 september 1792 adjua ere-ëba carel hendrik bartels.jpg carel hendrik bartels
 carel hendrik bartels trader , businessman , judge
carel hendrik bartels

carel hendrik bartels -lrb- 29 september 1792 -- 10 february 1850 -rrb- was the wealthiest and most important mulatto trader and businessman on the dutch gold coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century .
apart from his entrepreneurial activities , bartels was also a judge and member of the colonial government in elmina , making him one of the most important men in town .
bartels has an entry in hutchison 's `` the pen-pictures of modern africans and african celebrities '' .
