Cape Coast Castle

Cape Coast Castle is located in the city of Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. The building was constructed in 1637 as a Dutch base, but was already conquered by Sweden in 1652 under Henrik Carloff and called Fort Carolusburg. Carloff operated the fort with the help of the Svenska Söderkompaniet as a trading post.

1660-1663 conquered and occupied the local Fetu the castle. 1659 she was Danish, Swedish and 1663 1665 British ( by Robert Holmes).

Cape Coast Castle is a historic fort of about 35 of the Ghanaian coast. Since 1979, the fort stands on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Slave trade

Like most other forts on the so-called " Gold Coast " Cape Coast Castle served as a prison for locals who had been captured for the sale and transport as slaves to the European colonies in North and South America, often in the basement dungeons of the fort had to wait months for the next slave ship, before they were finally brought by a narrow basement corridor to the beach for loading. The Ghana Heritage Trust now operates in the castle a large museum on the history of the slave trade in the former Gold Coast.

Piracy process

On March 28, 1722 began at Cape Coast Castle one of the most sensational piracy processes in the history of the British Admiralty. 95 sailors from the crew of Bartholomew Roberts piracy were found guilty and sentenced, 52 of them to death by hanging.