#capecoast

Cape Coast. Orange Friday. This is more than history. This is memory carved in stone, echoing through time.

These walls remember what the world tries to forget. Here, our ancestors were traded, torn, and trafficked.

This isn't just a monument it's a testament. A testament to survival. To resilience. To the unbroken spirit that outlived the chains.

Guesthouse, Cape Coast, Ghana, 

Places in Ghanna - I

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-American people in Galveston, Texas were finally informed that slavery had ended in the United States and that they were free. (The Emancipation Proclamation, the Executive Order that ended slavery, went into effect two years prior 🙃) This day, known as Juneteenth, is celebrated in the United States as the end of chattel slavery and a day to celebrate African-American freedom.

Before Ghana was known as the Gold Coast, it was part of the Slave Coast, the area of West Africa that was a major location for sending enslaved Africans to the US, Caribbean, and Brazil. It is estimated that 66,0000 enslaved Africans that arrived in the US were from present-day Ghana.

The first picture in this series is of Cape Coast Castle, one of the castles used to hold enslaved Africans before they were forcibly sent to different countries. The second picture is a map of the Slave Coast in 1729. The third picture is of Collinwise Osei-Aboagye, a Ghanaian immigrant to the US, with members of his pharmacy school class at Howard University in the late 1980s. Howard University is a historically black university in the US. In his clip, Mr. Osei-Aboagye shares how the struggles African-Americans faced made it possible for him to live in the US.