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In Cape Coast Castle, the underground dungeon was a space of terror, death, and darkness. This stood as a direct juxtaposition to the European living quarters and commanding heights of the administrative quarters above, whose occupants lived relatively luxuriously.
Cape Coast Castle, fortified castle at Cape Coast, Ghana, that is one of the biggest and best-preserved of the slave castles along the coast of West Africa. It began in 1555 as a Portuguese trading post called Cabo Corso (“Short Cape”), from which it got its name.
Originally built by Sweden in the 1650s, Cape Coast Castle shifted into Danish, Dutch, and then English possession by the 1660s. In the castle’s early decades, trade revolved around gold, wood, and textiles before English merchants began to seek captive Africans in large numbers.
24 sty 2017 · One of the most famous castles in Ghana’s dark episode of slavery is the Cape Coast Castle. It began as a trade lodge constructed by the Portuguese in 1555 on a part of the Gold Coast, which later became known as the Cape Coast.
10 paź 2024 · The underground dungeon of Cape Coast Castle was a place of horror, death, and darkness where enslaved Africans were held before being shipped across the Atlantic. It was their last experience of their homeland.
17 maj 2011 · Cape Coast Castle, which is open for guided tours, is one of several Ghanaian colonial-era compounds in which captured Africans were held in dungeons during the slave trade era. Local cab...
29 cze 2016 · When you visit Cape Coast Castle today, the main destination in the calm and breezy seaside town of Cape Coast, you can tour the entire expansive building, from the ramparts lined with cannons to...
