FORT PRINZENSTEIN


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November 23rd 2006
Published: December 4th 2006
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THERE ARE 38 SLAVE CASTLES IN GHANA BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE LESS FAMOUS WITH THE MOST BRUTAL HISTORY.... HALF OF THE CASTLE HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY THE OCEAN RECEDING..... THIS CASTLE RESIDES IN KETA.... KETA WAS THE CAPITAL OF TRANSVOLTA/TOGO LAND UNDER THE GERMANS..... (ITS AMAZING HOW OTHER COUNTRIES COME AND CLAIM OUR CONTINENT)..... I WAS TOLD ABOUT THIS CASTLE FROM THE LOCAL NATIVES.... THIS IS NOT ON ANY MAJOR "TOURIST ATTRACTIONS" LIST..... BUT IT IS A "MUST SEE" IF YOU COME TO GHANA..... THE MOST HEART WRENCHING PART OF THIS TOUR WAS THE TORCHORING DUNGEON WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE EVIDENCE OF SLAVES TRYING TO DIG THEMSELVES OUT WITH THEIR OWN FINGERS..... THE GUIDE ADMITTED TO WITHOLDING MORE INFORMATION OF TORTURES THERE TO KEEP ME FROM CRYING.... I GUESS HE COULD SEE THE ANGER IN MY FACE.... THE LOCALS TALK ABOUT THE LOUD NOISES YOU HEAR FROM THE DUNGEON EVERY NIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT..... ONLY A COUPLE OF DARING SOULS HAVE TRIED TO SLEEP THERE, BUT NOT ONE LASTED A WHOLE NIGHT..... AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE PERSON WHO STAYED THERE THE LONGEST LASTED ONLY 15 MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT.... THEY HAVE FOUND SKELETONS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN THE DETERIORATING WALLS.... THEY BURIED THESE PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING.... THE UNRESTED SOULS STILL LINGER..... AFTER LEAVING THIS CASTLE I DONT THINK I CAN STAND SEEING ANOTHER ONE.....


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WOMEN'S DUNGEONWOMEN'S DUNGEON
WOMEN'S DUNGEON

THIS SMALL ROOM HELD AROUND 300 WOMEN
CORN GRINDERCORN GRINDER
CORN GRINDER

THERE WAS ONLY ON CORN GRINDER USED TO FEED ABOUT 700 SLAVES....SINCE THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, MOST OF THEM STARVED TO DEATH
DUNGEONDUNGEON
DUNGEON

ONE OF THE DUNGEONS USED TO TORCHER THE SLAVES
LAND OF BLOODLAND OF BLOOD
LAND OF BLOOD

THIS IS MARKED ON A PILLAR IN THIS SAME DUNGEON OF TORCHER
EVIDENCE OF DETERMINATIONEVIDENCE OF DETERMINATION
EVIDENCE OF DETERMINATION

THE BREAKING OF THE FLOOR IS WHERE THE SLAVES WERE TRYING TO DIG THEMSELVES OUT WITH THEY'RE OWN HANDS....
ANOTHER DUNGEONANOTHER DUNGEON
ANOTHER DUNGEON

THIS DUNGEON WAS FACING THE OCEAN.... ONE OF THE LAST HOLDING CELLS BEFORE SHIPMENT
BATHING AREABATHING AREA
BATHING AREA

THIS IS WHERE THE WOMEN BATHED AS THE GOVERNORS WATCHED BEFORE PICKING WHO THEY WANTED


24th March 2009

Fort Prinzenstein
This summer I travelled from America to Afife, Ghana on a mission trip. We were able to travel to Keta. This was an awesome event seeing the remnants of the slave trade. I was horrified, just as I was when I visited a holocaust extermination camp in Germany. Thanks for your comments. I wish I could remember everything the guide told me. I was especially interested in the tribal chiefs involvment in the slave trade.

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