Is it lawful to place a timeline in a purchased land indenture in Ghana to deprive the purchaser ownership after not meeting the timeline due to finances? My advise : Go to the lands commission and get a surveyor to go and plot the property and do a search at the Lands commission for you.Depends on who you are dealing with, it could take weeks, months or years. Nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved. Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.