Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post, established in 1555, which they named Cabo Corso.
In 1653, the Swedish Africa Company constructed a timber fort there. It originally was a centre for the trade in timber and gold. It was later used in the Atlantic slave trade.[1] Other Ghanaian slave castles include Elmina Castle and Fort Christiansborg. They were used to hold enslaved Africans before they were loaded onto ships and sold in the Americas, especially the Caribbean. This "gate of no return" was the last stop before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.[2] Cape Coast Castle, along with other forts and castles in Ghana, are included on the UNESCO World Heritage List because of their testimony to the Atlantic gold and slave trades.[3]
^"Ghana's Slave Castles: The Shocking Story of the Ghanaian Cape Coast". theculturetrip.com.
^"Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions". UNESCO World Heritage Convention. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 9 Oct 2022.
CapeCoastCastle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now...
Heritage Site, home to the CapeCoastCastle, with the Gulf of Guinea situated to its south. According to the 2010 census, CapeCoast had a settlement population...
The CapeCoastCastle Museum is an ethnography and archeological museum located in CapeCoast, Ghana. It was established in 1974. List of museums in Ghana...
historical sites in Ghana, Elmina and CapeCoastCastle, are a few kilometers away from its campus. The University of CapeCoast was established in October 1962...
a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979, including: Three castles: CapeCoast at CapeCoast St. George's d’Elmina at Elmina Christiansborg at Osu, Accra...
of CapeCoast, in Ghana's Central Region. The lighthouse is often called CapeCoastCastle Light, although it is not part of the CapeCoastCastle complex...
Captain-General of the Royal African Company and Governor of CapeCoastCastle on the Gold Coast. Phipps was one of at least five sons of the English merchant...
CapeCoast Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988...
took up work as a writer at CapeCoastCastle, the primary British fortification on the Gold Coast. After leaving CapeCoast on bad terms, Ansah worked...
all the Dutch forts except CapeCoastCastle and also took Cormantin. In 1667, the Treaty of Breda confirmed CapeCoastCastle to the English. Forts served...
forts and castles, World Heritage Sites, nature reserves and national parks. Some castles are CapeCoastCastle and the Elmina Castle. Castles mark where...
the Carolusburg Castle which was built in 1653 and named after King Charles X Gustav of Sweden but is now known as the CapeCoastCastle. The Swedish East...
English fort at Whydah, 22 Oct. 1754, quoted in letter of T. Melvil, CapeCoastCastle, 30 Nov. 1754". Public Records Office, London (PRO: T.70/1545). "Letter...
reference to Iboga is that of Bowdich in chapter 13 of his "Mission from CapeCoastCastle to Ashantee..." of 1819 The Eroga, a favourite but violent medicine...
the study he had made of the court of Kumasi, entitled Mission from CapeCoastCastle to Ashantee, &c. (London, 1819). He donated his Ashanti collection...
Cabo Corso (present-day CapeCoast) along the coast on the Gulf of Guinea in what later would become the British Gold Coast then Ghana. The eastern section...
The Castle of Good Hope (Dutch: Kasteel de Goede Hoop; Afrikaans: Kasteel die Goeie Hoop) is a bastion fort built in the 17th century in Cape Town, South...
Fort Apollonia, Fort Tantumquery, Fort Metal Cross, Fort Komenda and CapeCoastCastle, the last of which was the administrative centre. This coastal area...
USA, 2005. St Clair, William. The Door of No Return: The History of CapeCoastCastle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. BlueBridge. The Portuguese French Missionaries...
the two returned to CapeCoast the following year. The Royal African Company employed Quaque as the chaplain at CapeCoastCastle. He set up a small school...
the Gold Coast in contemporary Ghana. It was built in 1661, with the approval of the King of Fetu, a few hundred yards from CapeCoastCastle, which was...