Full Video: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Story of Ghana's Slave Castles) | Jamii Yangu

The

transatlantic

slave

trade

began during the 15th century, when Portugal and later other European kingdoms were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese were the first to move en

slave

d Africans back to Europe. It is estimated that at the beginning of the 16th century, already 10 percent of Portugal's population was of African descent. After the European discovery of the American continent, the demand for African labor gradually grew as all sources of labor, both European as well as American, they were insufficient. The Spanish took the first African captors to America from Europe. Already in 1503 and 1518, the first captives were sent directly from Africa to America.

Most African captives were exported from the coast of West Africa, about three thousand miles between present-day Senegal and Angola, and mostly from present-day Bennet Republic, Nigeria. and cameroon, but on the

ghana

coast, a series of ancient

castles

and forts marked the beginning of the dangerous journey of slaves during the era of the slave

trade

. These fortresses were the last memory slaves had of their homeland before being sent across the Atlantic. To return again I was there in one of the

castles

to capture this

story

. Cape Coast Castle was originally built by Sweden in the 1650s, then passed into Danish, then Dutch, and then became an English possession in the 1660s, in the castle's first decades trade revolved. around gold, timber and textiles before English traders began seeking captive Africans in large numbers.

When I entered, we could hear the singing of the local traditional priests who had their sanctuary in the dungeon in honor of their religious beliefs. My tour guide told me how many slaves were held in the castles where the slaves came from and how they were held captive before being sent to Europe and America. This is actually the youngest and smallest of the three castles built along the coast of West Africa, but then we say that this is the largest slave castle because it was built at the time when the

transatlantic

slave trade slaves was at the highest level, so the dungeons here were actually built much larger to house about fifteen hundred people at the same time, well, the people who were brought here were not all from Ghana, they brought me to me from different parts of Africa, but most of them came from West Africa and had to walk from where they were captured, either tied up or with shackles and chains that they found. themselves here in caicos castle in particular before sending them to the dungeons, each group of Africans that were here were separate property of many British companies, so the companies will then put metals with their initials in the fire, that indicates of where they get them. before the metal reaches any part of the human body they smear that part with oil before marking them after marking them they will send them to the dungeons where they will remain at least two weeks or three months waiting for the arrival of the slave ships now we are in the mail dungeon starting from here to the fifth room the whole place took about a thousand black men a thousand black men mathematically they will say each of these rooms held about 200 people we entered through the door not coming back at this point it was a difficult moment for me , but what is being done to ensure that this heritage is never lost?

Sebastian, my tour guide told me that routine checks are frequently carried out at the castle to ensure that it is always fit and never lost bennett joseph new central television