![]() Some will use alphabet some will use numbers on the form of a metallic stamp,” Afful describes. “Now, with the branding, each merchant has its own method of doing it. Kanye West changed his album after slavery comment controversyĬaptives could spend as long as three months in confinement, awaiting their journey into a dark, and unknown future.Īs Afful explains, negotiations were concluded before slave ships would carry their human cargo.īut in a market where the seller had little control over how each slave could be distinguished, the buyers often felt the need to label their new property, in the most inhumane of ways. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for adidas) Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for adidas an event in basketball culture on Februin Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 17: Kanye West onstage at adidas Creates 747 Warehouse St. ![]() “At the rate they were getting it, this made the Portuguese to think or believe that a gold mine is found here,” he says. When the Portuguese first arrived, their main commodity was gold, Afful explains. “One believed that the word ‘Elmina’ is an Arabic name, which means ‘harbor.’ One also has it that it’s a Portuguese word meaning, ‘the mine,’ Afful says. “I thought this was an ideal place for me to start my journey to search for my roots, for my past, and to find out really what happened here within these walls.”Īlex Afful, a tour guide at the castle, says there are two schools of thought on the inspiration behind the castle’s name. My name took me to Ghana because I knew there was Bartels here,” he say in the halls of the old castle. “My mother is Belizean, and I was born in the UK. Some of them, like Ivor Bartels, are looking to reconnect with their lost family’s heritage and unwittingly, a lot more. Cape Coast is steeped in history.This slave castle's inner walls are a haunting reminder of its gruesome past The Cape Coast Castle Museum is housed in one of the wings of Cape Coast Castle.Ĭape Coast is a fascinating town to explore, its relative antiquity reflected not only in an endlessly surprising range of architectural styles spanning three centuries, but also in the organic shape of the old town, with roads hugging the curves of low hills. Its rebuilding in 1757 was undertaken by the Royal African Company, one of the three principal English trading companies formed to trade in the Gold Coast among others.Ĭape Coast Castle, through which millions of slaves were shipped to the Caribbean and the Americas, became the seat of British colonial administration until 1877 when government offices moved to Christiansborg Castle in Accra. It was the object of the Anglo Dutch rivalry and hostilities during that period. In 1681 it was attacked by the people of the town, and subsequently bombarded by the French fleet in 1703 and also in 1757. In 1663, it was captured by the Dutch, then recaptured by the English in 1664 and again improved and enlarged in 1673. ![]() In 1652, it was found abandoned and occupied by the Swedes who in 1657 built Fort Carolusborg, which was used for trade in timber and gold, but later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Ĭape Coast Castle has seen many occupations by numerous foreign powers. The original settlement of the castle was a small lodge built by the Portuguese called Cabo Corco. The city is located 165 km west of Accra.Ĭape Coast Castle is one of about forty large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. Cape Coast is the capital of the Central Region of Ghana and the main city of the Fanti people. ![]()
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