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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abaka, Edmund Kobina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Trenton N.J. : Africa World Press, [2012]
Series:	Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
Subjects:	Slave trade > Ghana > History. Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region > History. Fortification > Ghana. Historic buildings > Ghana. Castles > Ghana. Prisons > Ghana. Slaves > Dwellings > Ghana. Slaves > Ghana > Social conditions.

Table of 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.