Cape Coast Castles

I spent a little less then a week in the central city of Cape Coast. Cape Coast is definately the most historic city in the world in terms of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.



Cape Coast is home to the two largest slave forts/castles in Africa and Ghana has 40 such forts all along the coast. The various forts were all built by either the Portugese, British, or Dutch who all fought one another in Ghana for control of the slave trade. I think this castle was featured in the Spielberg film "Amistad"

While in Cape Coast my friend Kofi took me to his neighborhood in Cape Coast and while we were walking I saw a place called "Tel-Aviv Spot". I asked him about it and he said the owner was a Ghanian lady who lived in Israel for awhile. I went inside and had a nice talk and a beer with the lady.

The castle was amazing and the dungeons and cells were haunting as well. The castle has a door (door of no return) which is the door you were sent out of when you left to be sold off in the new world. Since this was the largest slave fort it is likely that if you are a black American whose ancestors came here as slaves, one of them may have likely walked through that door as most African-Americans are West African descendants from the Ghana region.
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I made a lot of friends in Cape Coast and recieved invitations to come and stay with different Ghanians who were in Cape Coast to vote in the runoff but live in various regions from all over Ghana. I will take some of them up on the offer