Cape Coast

We've all heard about the slave trade in West Africa and how millions of African slaves either died in captivity or on their way to the Americas. Cape Coast is a city about 100 miles west of the capitol Accra in Ghana. Cape Coast had the largest slave castle in West Africa during it's reign from 1700-1850. Tours of the castle are now given to see how the slaves survived and died. Several thousand slaves would live in a dungeon with very little light or food. If they started to rebel, they were put in another dungeon with no sunlight or water until they died. A very sad and moving experience to see the historical rationale for the atrocities that were committed in this place.