Elmina Castle

Also known as São Jorge da Mina, Fort Elmina

A fortified trading post on the Ghanaian coast, built by Portugal in 1482 and later a centre of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Elmina Castle is on the atlas, but nobody has written and sourced a full entry for it. Rather than generating one, we are leaving this blank until it can be researched properly. The coverage inventory in the repository tracks what is outstanding.

Themes: Trade & exchange, Migration & diaspora, Empires & independence