...after approximately four hours on the road we arrived in the town of Elmina and our target destination
Fort Saint-George...
...details of the history surrounding the early slave trade are readily available to read online (see two sites above) so I won`t elaborate here...
...one surprising detail I learned though was that the `white man`was just the middle man in the transaction...the coastal African tribes would bring them slaves captured from interior tribes to be sold and traded for goods...
...but it was impossible to imagine just how appalling were the conditions of the slaves as they waited...
...to be led through the famous `door of no return`...
...to where the ships would carry then to the colonies across the ocean...
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| ...the Goveror`s chambers where he would have brought to him female slaves of his choosing.... |
...the beautiful view outside was in stark contrast to the horrors that must have gone on inside the walls ...
...African proverb...
