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Author:

Abaka, Edmund Kobina.

Title:

House of slaves and "door of no return" : Gold Coast/Ghana slave forts, castles & dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade / Edmund Abaka.

Publisher:

Africa World Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxvii, 413 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slave trade--Ghana--History.
Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Fortification--Ghana.
Historic buildings--Ghana.
Castles--Ghana.
Prisons--Ghana.
Slaves--Dwellings--Ghana.
Slaves--Ghana--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960 -- The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora -- Portuguese global trade: slave forts, castles and dungeons on the Gold Coast and the Atlantic slave trade -- The Dutch global enterprise and the Atlantic slave trade: slave fort and castle construction -- English hegemony: the slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade -- The Danes on the eastern seaboard of the Gold Coast: the "Baltic-African complex" and the Atlantic slave trade -- The Brandenburgers and the Atlantic slave trade: following the Dutch example in the Guinea trade -- Conclusion: from "gates of no return" to "gates of return": PANAFEST, emancipation commemoration and the slave forts, castles and dungeons in Ghana.

Series:

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

ISBN:

1592218253 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9781592218257 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1592218261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781592218264 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)750401398

LCCN:

2011032533

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)