he Elmina Castle on Ghana’s Atlantic coast is more than 5,000 miles from American shores, but the five-century old structure occupies a particularly dark place in U.S. history. Hundreds of years ago, it was a central trading hub where African people from around the continent were sold into slavery.
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Elmina castle was built by the Portuguese to facilitate slave trade. The people of the cost of Ghana were delivering slaves to Elmina, in exchange for Portuguese stuff. Portuguese never ventured to the African continent, since they could no last there too long.
So those people, going to Ghana, are actually relocating into the society which sold them to slavery in first place.
in exchange for Portuguese stuff.
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Which were guns and black powder
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Portuguese never ventured to the African continent, since they could no last there too long
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Actually they did. The first Portuguese went ashore and stayed a while in the wooden African cities which featured running water and sewers from Roman times. Living conditions were far better than in Portugal (the super power of the age) so they petitioned the King to be allowed to remain. With the advent of the slave and gun trade, all of that fell apart and the cities were depopulated and lost in the jungle to rot.