A plaque currently on display at Cape Coast Dungeon.
PHOTO CREDIT: Alison Anderson
Depicting the Triangular Slave Trade Route.
PHOTO CREDIT: Alison Anderson
The horrid tools of the trade.
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Africans' last vivid image of Africa - Cape Coast Dungeon - as they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
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Door of Return - Cape Coast.
Symbolic sign, welcoming Africans from the Diaspora back to the "Motherland."
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Fort Amsterdam - Door of No Return.
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Inside one a Cape Coast male slave dungeons. The grooved channel on the ground is where all bodily waste flowed out towards the sea. There was no separate area. All human activity took place within the confines of their cell.
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Assin Manso - site of the "last bath." At this spot along the slave march route the human chattels would literally take their last bath before auctioned off and sent to the coastal dungeons to await the dreaded middle passage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Slave March Route - Africans would have marched for more than two months this location.
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By car, it takes several hours to get to the dungeons at Cape Coast from here. More than three hundred years ago, it took slaves more than a week to to reach their destination from this very spot - on foot.
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Fort Amsterdam, formerly Fort Cormantin. Kromantse has been spelled by various anglicized versions.
PHOTO CREDIT: Alison Anderson
Entering Kromantse (pronounced Kromanti).
Where the British built their first slave trading fort in 1631.
PHOTO CREDIT: MACPRI
Slaves marching from the north -
Mural depicting an act of inhumanity.
Background: Slaves captured in the northern regions journeyed - on foot - for more than three months to the coastal dungeons in the former Gold Coast (now Ghana).
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