Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions, Volta Region Picture: Inside Cape Coast Castle Ghana - Check out Tripadvisor members' 49 candid photos and videos of Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 on the order of Hendrik Carloff for the Swedish Africa Company and named Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden.It was later rebuilt in stone. The Swedes, led by Krusenstjerna, however, were the initiators of the permanent structure presently known as Cape Coast Castle. In addition, the immense viability of the area’s trade implied that the ensuing quest for control led to the Swedes having trouble holding on to their fort. Not from male slaves but from the Europeans. What’s equally horrifying is that you will see scratch marks made in desperation on the walls. Like most ancient fortifications in Ghana, Cape Coast Castle played a significant role in the gold and slave trades.
I share original photography from inside both the castle and museum. Cape Coast Castle - Pictures Inside. Finally, the British fleet, led by Captain Holmes, conquered the fort in 1665 and by 1700, had upgraded it into a castle.Colonial rivalry between England and France peaked in 1757 during the Seven Years’ War. Cape Coast Castle is the largest of the buildings which contains the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1664, the British captured the fort as a part of the Second Dutch-Anglo war.After fortifying the structure and building it up, Cape Coast Castle became the capital for British operations in the Gold Coast. Watch Queue Queue There’s no place in Europe or the Americas where you can learn exactly how the slave trade worked with real life examples.
When I say walk, I mean walk in the same shackles you saw in the Slave Museum. You can easily visit on a day trip from Accra. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
Thus drowning before they even made it to the ship. It’s years of this behavior where the racism people talk about today began.Newly captured male slaves would be branded by a hot iron, shackled and placed in the male dungeon. Finally, the slave ship would take them to the Americas.Something which did not exist during the slave trade years was the Door of Return. Food would be thrown down one from one of these holes.There is a smaller room, adjacent to the female dungeons.
You start in the dungeons, where the slaves were held.In one of the male dungeons, archeologists excavated the floor and found that the original stone floor was about 18 inches below where they began. We have selected a few pictures, showing Cape Coast Castle inside. Watch Queue Queue. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. It’s horrifying that you will walk on layers of eroded slave feces, blood and bodies.
Cannons at Cape Coast Castle. U.S. first lady Melania Trump meets with Fante chiefs to gain permission to visit Cape Coast castle, Ghana Thomson Reuters CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - U.S. First lady Melania Trump on Wednesday laid a wreath at a slave fortress on the coast of Ghana, vowing never to forget the place where Africans were held before being shipped away into further hardship, most across the Atlantic. The Castle served as the seat of the British administration in the then Gold Coast (Ghana) until the administration was moved to Christianborg Castle in Accra on March 19,1877.‘Cabo Corso,’ meaning ‘short cape’, is the name the Portuguese settled on for the local settlement within which its trade lodge was built in 1555.
Over the next ten years, the Swedes, Danish and Dutch vied for control of the trading post.
Cape Coast Castle, Ghana is also known as (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one in every of approximately forty "slave castles", or massive industrial forts, constructed at the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) via way of means of European buyers. There are no lights, little ventilation, no toilets or any other type of facilities. However, once you take the slave castle tour you’ll discover this is just one of the several examples of inhumane treatment.All slaves which were processed at Cape Coast Castle would be branded with an iron.