hi am rahman from ghana.will you be my frend..i am now going to tell u about the slave trade history in ghana.it was in the hope of location the source of the abundant gold carried north by the trans Sahara caravans that portugues nevigators first set about exploring the west coast of Africa in the Mid-15 centry.itwas discovery of justsuch a supply at the porty they named it Elmina.the mines.in 1471 that prompted the portugues to build fortfled trade outpost there,and which gave the gold coast its named.and is was the selfsame commodity that would dominate trade out of the 200years,granting it near -immunity from the the divaslation caused elswhere in west Africa by the rapacious demand Americas.by 17oo,largely due to a British attempt to break the dutch monopoly on local trade .the gold caost hard .in the words at of one officials at Elmina.Become a virtuals slave coast.the numerous forts that hard been built by various Europeans powers to service the Golf trade were expanded and their warehouses converted to dungeonds,wherin many thousands annually prior to atlantic into the maericas.today dozen which still survive more or less intact.most Castle -impressively capecoast and Elmina.Castle pay harrowing testament to a exile sordid Saga that resulted in the forced 12 million Africasn before the the slave trade was out lawed by Britain in 1807.the most significant site include Assin-manso, which lies just 40km from the coast and formed the center piece of ghanas first Emancipation DAY ceremony in 1998,as well as the moer remote slave market and well at Salaga,near Tamale and the slave camp of Pikworo on the border with Burkina Faso.Capecoast castle whose gloomy slave dungeons conected by a Dank subterranean tunnel to the Door of No Return.pay sombre testiment to its 18centry role as Africas most important slave trading post..Assin-manso where captives from the north took their last bath at the Nnonkonsuo River before being sold to coastal tradeders,and more recen
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