"House of slaves and 'door of no return'"
Subtitle: Gold Coast/Ghana slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade
By: Edmund Abaka
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592218257; 9781592218264
Subjects: Castles; Slave trade; Historic buildings; Prisons; Fortification; Slaves; Social conditions; Dwellings; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960; title: The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora; title: Portuguese global trade: slave forts, castles and dungeons on the Gold Coast and the Atlantic slave trade; title: The Dutch global enterprise and the Atlantic slave trade: slave fort and castle construction; title: English hegemony: the slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade; title: The Danes on the eastern seaboard of the Gold Coast: the "Baltic-African complex" and the Atlantic slave trade; title: The Brandenburgers and the Atlantic slave trade: following the Dutch example in the Guinea trade; title: Conclusion: from "gates of no return" to "gates of return": PANAFEST, emancipation commemoration and the slave forts, castles and dungeons in Ghana.