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Gold Coast Castles: Forts That Held the Atlantic Slave Trade
Lucas and Luna explore a corner of the Atlantic slave trade that the main revolt narratives rarely touch: the European-built castles and forts along Ghana's Gold Coast. They walk through Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle, describing the dungeons, the Door of No Return, and the logistics that made these stone fortresses the holding pens for millions of enslaved Africans before the Middle Passage. Lucas tells the story of how the Portuguese, Dutch, British, and Danes competed for the Gold Coast trade, how the castles operated as both trading posts and prisons, and what it meant for the…
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