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.
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