Cape Coast

At Cape Coast, we visited an old slave trading castle. The castle was not build exclusively for slave trade and has been used for many different types of trading over the years as well as for various business functions. But, of course, the reason it is so significant today is because of the slave trading. It was kind of chilling to be there and to imagine all that had gone on and all the families that have been destroyed within these walls. There is a "Door of No Return" which is the last place the slaves passed through before being boarded onto the ships and obviously, never returning to Africa. We visited the dungeons, where the slaves were kept until they were shipped out. They are extremely dark and small, so many people were crammed into these tiny spaces. There is a dip along one of the walls in the dungeons that was for using the bathroom... it was so brutal I can't imagine living through something like that, and many of them didn't live through it.