House of slaves and "door of no return" : Gold Coast/Ghana slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade / by Edmund Abaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abaka, Edmund.

Series:

Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Ghana--History.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Fortification--Ghana.

Fortification.

Enslaved persons.

Social conditions.

Enslaved persons--Dwellings.

Prisons.

Historic buildings.

History.

Ghana.

Historic buildings--Ghana.

Castles--Ghana.

Castles.

Prisons--Ghana.

Enslaved persons--Dwellings--Ghana.

Enslaved persons--Ghana--Social conditions.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trenton N.J. : Africa World Press, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960

The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora

Portuguese global trade: slave forts, castles and dungeons on the Gold Coast and the Atlantic slave trade

The Dutch global enterprise and the Atlantic slave trade: slave fort and castle construction

English hegemony: the slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade

The Danes on the eastern seaboard of the Gold Coast: the "Baltic-African complex" and the Atlantic slave trade

The Brandenburgers and the Atlantic slave trade: following the Dutch example in the Guinea trade

Conclusion: from "gates of no return" to "gates of return": PANAFEST, emancipation commemoration and the slave forts, castles and dungeons in Ghana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592218257

1592218253

9781592218264

1592218261

OCLC:

750401398