Elmina Castle (also called the Castle of St. George) is located on the Atlantic coast of Ghana west of the capital, Accra.
Elmina Castle (also called the Castle of St. George) is located on the Atlantic coast of Ghana west of the capital, Accra. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site called "Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions." Built by the Portuguese in 1482, it was, as UNESCO puts it, a "link in the trade routes established by the Portuguese in many areas of the world during their era of great maritime exploration." The castle was conquered by the Dutch in 1637 and held until 1872, when it was sold to the British. It also played a key role in the transatlantic slave trade, containing a series of dungeons in which both male and female slaves were imprisoned during the 17th and 18th centuries as their last stop before embarkation to (mostly) the Caribbean and Brazil.
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