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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.
23 lip 2018 · Under the auspices of the Dutch West Indies Company, around 30,000 slaves a year passed through Elmina until 1814 when the Dutch slave trade was abolished. Ceded to the British in 1872, Elmina Castle was rarely in use until Ghana’s independence from the Britain in 1957.
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.
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.
Elmina Castle was crucial to the Atlantic Slave Trade as it served as one of the first European trading posts in West Africa. It facilitated not only the export of enslaved Africans but also the import of goods from Europe.
