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Ball sans chain

Women who had refused the sexual advances of their captors were chained to this ball in the main courtyard outside the women's dungeon in the sun with no water or food.

• Date: 26 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Elmina, Ghana: gallery
• Tags: forts slaves
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Womens dungeon

• Date: 26 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Elmina, Ghana: gallery
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The market room

This chamber (recently renovated) was where slaves were bought and sold to various merchants

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Cape Coast Castle

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Cape Coast Castle

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The Governors Chambers

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The Governors Chambers 2

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Strandloper on the rocks

A beachcomber walks the rocks in search of shellfish below the main parapet of Cape Coast Castle

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Fire and Water

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Cape Coast Castle-soldier barracks

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Cape Coast Castle

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The way out

The Condemned Cell was guarded and locked by 3 heavily fortified doors. Once all closed, they effectively cut off air supply to the Cell. Apparently the main cause of death was asphyxiation.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Inside the Condemned Cell

The lighting provided here is modern: no light was available when the cell was in use.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Scratchings on the walls inside the Condemned Slaves Cell

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Scratchings on the walls

Condemned slaves sent to the Cell to die would scratch the walls in desperation. Similar scratchings have apparently been found in the walls of the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Inside the Condemned Cell

The room is incredibly claustophobic, with no windows at all. Access is gained through 3 consecutive and heavily fortified doors.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The Condemned Slaves Cell

Our guide here stands by the door of the Cell where condemned slaves who had attempted to escape or committed some other 'crime' were sent to die.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The Door of Return

Since the remains of 2 deceased slaves from the diaspora (one Jamaican and one American) were returned through the door to be buried in Ghana, thus breaking the chain of forced immigration and slavery, the door on the other side has been christined the 'Door of Return'.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Today

Once through the Door of No Return, the view that greets the visitor today is the bustling fishing harbour that is now the main industry at Cape Coast

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Looking back

The view that slaves would've seen as they looked back towards the castle just before being shoved through the Door of No Return

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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Cape Coast Castle, slave dungeon

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The second women's dungeon chamber

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The women's dungeon (no flash)

The women were separated between 2 smaller dungeons. Women from either dungeon would often be selected by the governor himself or lesser ranking officers and be taken from the dungeon to the officers bed quarters where they would be raped. After the ordeal, they would be returned to the dungeon. Women who fell pregnant by their captors were shown a little more mercy and taken out of the dungeon to live in the town with their newborn child. Children of the officers would often be given their name with the suffix 'son', hence the origins of names such as Williamson, Johnson, Peterson, Jackson etc.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The entrance to the womens dungeon

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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The Womens Dungeon

The women were separated between 2 smaller dungeons. Women from either dungeon would often be selected by the governor himself or lesser ranking officers and be taken from the dungeon to the officers bed quarters where they would be raped. After the ordeal, they would be returned to the dungeon. Women who fell pregnant by their captors were shown a little more mercy and taken out of the dungeon to live in the town with their newborn child. Children of the officers would often be given their name with the suffix 'son', hence the origins of names such as Williamson, Johnson, Peterson, Jackson etc.

• Date: 21 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Cape Coast, Ghana: gallery
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