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First established as a trade settlement, the castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1596, and took over all of the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642.
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.
The Elmina Castle in the Central Region of Ghana is the first castle built by the Europeans (the Portuguese) on their arrival at the then Guinea Coast or Gold Coast. 1 The purpose of the establishment of the castle was initially for commercial
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...
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.
27 lip 2018 · First built in 1482 as a Portuguese trading settlement, the 91,000 sq foot behemoth was one of the principal slave depots in the transatlantic slave trade for more than three centuries.
