"House of slaves and 'door of no return'" : Gold Coast/Ghana slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade / Edmund Abaka.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abaka, Edmund
Language:English
Published: Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2012, [2011]
Subjects:
Slave trade > Ghana > History.
Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Fortification > Ghana.
Historic buildings > Ghana.
Castles > Ghana.
Prisons > Ghana.
Enslaved persons > Dwellings > Ghana.
Enslaved persons > Ghana > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xxvii, 413 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960
  • The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora
  • Portuguese global trade: slave forts, castles and dungeons on the Gold Coast and the Atlantic slave trade
  • The Dutch global enterprise and the Atlantic slave trade: slave fort and castle construction
  • English hegemony: the slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade
  • The Danes on the eastern seaboard of the Gold Coast: the "Baltic-African complex" and the Atlantic slave trade
  • The Brandenburgers and the Atlantic slave trade: following the Dutch example in the Guinea trade
  • Conclusion: from "gates of no return" to "gates of return": PANAFEST, emancipation commemoration and the slave forts, castles and dungeons in Ghana.