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1 sie 2019 · I have examined the presence of the Europeans in Elmina (on the Guinea Coast), the genesis or the establishment of the Elmina Castle, and how the British eventually came to occupy the...
Elmina Castle, fortified castle in Elmina, Ghana, that is thought to be the oldest surviving European building in Africa south of the Sahara. Built in 1482 by the Portuguese to protect the gold trade, Elmina Castle later became a major center of the transatlantic slave trade.
This ideological struggle surrounding the authentic presentation of the transatlantic slave trade is particularly heightened when roots tourists visits to sites such as Elmina Castle reveal that “local chiefs and inhabitants actively supported the slave trade in the past” (Jordan 2007: 51).
Elmina Castle, founded in 1482 adjacent to an existing African settlement, was the first European trade post in sub-Saharan Africa. The Castle subsequently played a crucial role in Portuguese attempts to monopolize the African trade and it became a focal point of European rivalry in the region.
26 maj 2024 · The slave trade at Elmina Castle finally ended in 1814 when the British abolished the practice, though they continued to use the fort as a military installation and even a prison into the 20th century, including incarcerating King Prempeh I of the Ashanti for four years in the 1890s.
genesis of the establishment of the Elmina Castle, and how the British eventually took over the Elmina Castle. From the historical background of Elmina (Edina, or Anomansa), the political organization, economics, and culture, the paper has been limited and focused on the coming of the Eur.
This chapter’s main concerns are the origins and organization of the slave trade, the role of European slavers in the operations associated with capture and enslavement, and the question of African collaboration. Also discussed is an issue often ignored, that of African resistance to slave trading.
