Cape Coast Castle is one of a number of “slave castles”, fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders, originally for trade in timber and gold, later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Other Ghanaian slave castles include the Portuguese foundation of Elmina Castle (later Dutch) and Fort Christiansborg. They were used to hold slaves before they were loaded onto ships and traded in the Americas and the Caribbean. This “gate of no return” was the last stop before crossing the great Atlantic Ocean.
Visited Elmina in 2004…Cant wait to go back next year
iwishenglandwouldgetaheadache:
if the villains won
This is a terrible post.
Creepily wonderful
The painting of Gaston and Belle in the background is what got me.
(via thekingdomblog)
