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Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890.
Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. The Castle was originally built for the trade in timber and gold, and was later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1957, the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to become independent, and was renamed Ghana. An engraving from Robert Brown's The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890).
Unique Identifier
AR935529
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4876px × 3581px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
AFRICA
Atlantic Ocean
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
BROWN
building
BUILDINGS
Cape Coast Castle
Castle
coast
CONTINENT
country
Engraving
FORT
Fortification
geographical feature
Geography
ghana
GOLD COAST
Hill
Landscape
LOCATION
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Ocean
Print Collector2
robert
Robert Brown
Seascape
SLAVE TRADE
Slavery
TGN
The Print Collector
Water
WEST AFRICA