THE DOOR OF NO RETURN (digital download)
Located in Elmina Castle on the Cape Coast in West Africa, it was built in 1482 by the Portuguese and became a major center in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Originally protecting the gold trade, it would later house what was known as the Door of No Return. A tiny doorway through which slaves were housed for months, fed at most once a day, tortured, and emaciated, would be escorted to awaiting ships, too weak to struggle. The last time they would ever see their homeland, either perishing in transit or being sold into servitude in a foreign country.
Located in Elmina Castle on the Cape Coast in West Africa, it was built in 1482 by the Portuguese and became a major center in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Originally protecting the gold trade, it would later house what was known as the Door of No Return. A tiny doorway through which slaves were housed for months, fed at most once a day, tortured, and emaciated, would be escorted to awaiting ships, too weak to struggle. The last time they would ever see their homeland, either perishing in transit or being sold into servitude in a foreign country.
Located in Elmina Castle on the Cape Coast in West Africa, it was built in 1482 by the Portuguese and became a major center in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Originally protecting the gold trade, it would later house what was known as the Door of No Return. A tiny doorway through which slaves were housed for months, fed at most once a day, tortured, and emaciated, would be escorted to awaiting ships, too weak to struggle. The last time they would ever see their homeland, either perishing in transit or being sold into servitude in a foreign country.
