Four-century-long journey home across the Atlantic: Dark past of Cape Coast Castle

The city of Cape Coast on Ghana's Atlantic coastline is home to the infamous Cape Coast Castle. In the transatlantic slave trade which spanned four centuries, slaves abducted or captured by Westerners in the African continent were imprisoned in the dungeons of the castles alike before being shipped to the Americas and the Caribbean for a lifetime's labor.

The slave trade generated immense wealth for Western nations and played a critical role in the accumulation of capital, reflecting the brutal reality of a globalization process dominated by these countries.

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