WI Denmark never sold Gold Coast?

As the title says, for a reason or another the Danish never sold Osu Castle/Accra and surrounding outposts to the UK, they could have managed to realize a Danish Ghana colony, and eventually benefit from it? Or would be a task too much great for them?
 
As the title says, for a reason or another the Danish never sold Osu Castle/Accra and surrounding outposts to the UK, they could have managed to realize a Danish Ghana colony, and eventually benefit from it? Or would be a task too much great for them?
I thought there was a bit of a problem that the Goldcoast outpost were kind of scattered, as in not connected to each other, with other European outposts between. I don't have a good map of the situation in the 19th century, but I do know there were English, Dutch and Danish outposts in the Goldcoast. If the Danes manage to get a nice continuous piece of land around Ghana, it would probably end up a Danish colony after the scramble. Maybe they would be able to offer enough money to buy the Dutch Gold Coast, although I doubt it.They would not be able to outbid the British.
 
As the title says, for a reason or another the Danish never sold Osu Castle/Accra and surrounding outposts to the UK, they could have managed to realize a Danish Ghana colony, and eventually benefit from it? Or would be a task too much great for them?

Too lazy to look. When was it sold?
 
It is my understanding that by the 1850's the scramble to colonies was winding down and with a few notable exceptions, the second half of the 19th Century was quiet with Pax Britannica being the norm. In short, if the Danes were able to consolidate and strengthen their position the colony could be maintained. If nothing else, they could be no worse than the Portuguese in West Africa.
 
We would likely see Ghana split in half with the eastern part being Danish and united with Togo. Denmark hay push some further inland along the Volta River maybe creating a bigger inland domain in the Volta watershed. Denmark was already pushing inward earlier. Denmark was also at the forefront in setting up large cash crop plantages on the Gold Coast, and many biracial descendent of the local Danes still owns these in Ghana. Denmark would likely also be busy spreading Lutheranism in any colony, so we would likely see a much more unified Christian Church, and these would serve to set up local education institutions.
 

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It is my understanding that by the 1850's the scramble to colonies was winding down and with a few notable exceptions, the second half of the 19th Century was quiet with Pax Britannica being the norm. In short, if the Danes were able to consolidate and strengthen their position the colony could be maintained. If nothing else, they could be no worse than the Portuguese in West Africa.

Your periodization is a little off. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the British were the only ones capable of "scrambling". The 1815-1830 period was probably when the continental powers were the least scrambly. 1830-1880 outposts were being established at a slow pace. The peak of the colonial scramble was really the last quarter of the 19th century all the way up till 1914.
 
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