Posts From Ghana

Our excursion today was a long bus ride east (from the port in Sekondi-Takorada) along the coast to the towns/cities of Cape Coast and Elmina where we visited in turn Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle. These two structures were built by European colonial powers as part of their search for riches on the African coast and eventually became essential facilities supporting the Atalntic slave trade. At both of these places we were able to see were slaves were kept before being shipped to the New World and at Cape Coast Castle we saw one of the original Gate of No Return.