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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.
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 · But this 500-year-old fortress, the oldest European structure still standing in sub-Saharan Africa, holds within its storied walls an ugly truth – this was one of the most prolific slave trading posts in history.
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...
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.
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.
