CAPE COAST CASTLE

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I WENT TO CAPE COAST TO VISIT ONE OF THE FAMOUS CASTLES WHICH HELD AND TORMENTED THE SLAVES BEFORE SENDING THEM OFF TO THE AMERICAS..... THE PICTURES ARE SELF EXPLANITORY..... I MUST ADMIT I LITERALLY HELD BACK TEARS AND WAS ASTOUNDED TO HEAR THE STORIES OF HOW THEY MADE SURE THE LOCAL VILLAGERS HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CASTLE.... IF THEY KNEW THEY WOULD HAVE BOMBARDED AND TORN THE CASTLES DOWN.... THE NATIVES ONLY KNEW THAT ONCE YOU WENT IN, YOU DIDNT COME OUT..... THEY ONLY TELL THE STORY OF TAKING SLAVES OVER AGE 12.... BUT WE KNOW THERE IS TOO MUCH DOCUMENTARY IN AMERICA OF THEM BRINGING OVER CHILDREN....THAT PART OF THE STORY THEY REFUSE TO REVEAL..... I MADE IT A POINT TO ASK EACH GUIDE WHERE THEY KEPT THE CHILDREN BUT THEY ALL DENIED ENSLAVING CHILDREN..... WHATS EVEN MORE SAD IS WHEN I TALK TO THE NATIVES HERE TODAY, THEY REALLY ARENT AWARE OF WHAT OUR ANCESTORS WENT THROUGH IN THE AMERICAS.... THE TRUE HISTORY OF OUR ANCESTORS HAS BEEN DENIED TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OVER HERE.... THEY ARE ASTOUNDED WHEN I START TO TELL THEM SOME OF THE THINGS WE WENT THROUGH.... MOST OF THEM ARE MAD THAT THEY ARE EVEN DENIED EDUCATION OF THEIR TRUE HISTORY..... SINCE BEING HERE, I'M TRULY CONVINCED THAT WE MUST EDUCATE EACH OTHER ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BECAUSE I'VE LEARNED ALOT ABOUT GHANAIAN HISTORIANS THAT WE'VE NEVER HEARD OF IN AMERICA.... THE VICTORIOUS BATTLES AND STRONG TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE HERE MUST BE LEARNED BY US TO HAVE A BETTER CONNECTION OF WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE COME FROM..... THIS JOURNEY SHOULD BE MADE BY EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN.... ITS A NECESSITY.... WE ARE NOTHING WITHOUT OUR ROOTS.... OUR HISTORY DIDNT START IN SLAVERY.... THE REAL EDUCATION MUST BEGIN WITH OURSELVES AND OUR YOUTH, BY TELL "OUR" STORY.... AND NOT HISTORY "HIS" STORY......

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Photos

MALE SLAVE DUNGEON
THEY KEPT OVER 600 MEN IN THIS SMALL AREA... THEY FOUND OVER A FOOT OF FECES MATTED ON THE GROUND... THEY THREW CORN THREW SMALL HOLES IN THE CEILING FOR THEM TO EAT...

MALE SLAVE DUNGEON
THIS IS THE HOLE THEY USED TO THROW CORN THROUGH IN THE CEILING FOR THEM TO EAT...

SHRINE
THIS SHRINE IS USED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE ANCESTORS WHO DIED THERE... PEOPLE COME TO PRAY AND LEAVE GIFTS

TUNNEL
THIS IS AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL USED TO ESCORT THE SLAVES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SHIPS FROM THEIR DUNGEONS

WOMEN'S DUNGEON
THIS IS WHERE THE WOMEN WERE HELD.... VERY SMALL ROOM...

CELL OF DEATH
THIS IS WHERE THEY PUT REBELLIOUS SLAVES TO DIE... THERE ARE THREE DOORS... ONCE THE CLOSED ALL THREE YOU WOULD SLOWLY SUFFOCATE TO DEATH....

DOOR OF NO RETURN
THIS WAS THE LAST DOOR THE SLAVES WENT THROUGH BEFORE GETTING ON THE SHIPS OFF TO THE AMERICAS.....

Comments

[Deborah]

I'm grateful
Thank you for letting me see this. You serve countless souls by allowing a glimpse of this atrocity. I guess this experience has changed you. I look forward to the good that issues forth from your heart as a result of your being opened so.

[kweku tawiah-sweden]

good work
a great work for those who doubt stories of the slave trade.