The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle And The British Slave Trade

An astonishing portrait of the chief British slave 'factory' (or warehouse) on the African Gold Coast...

From this handsome building on the Atlantic shore African men, women and children were sold as slaves and carried across the ocean. In a truly original book, by telling the story of the castle and some of the people who lived, worked or were imprisoned within its walls, William St Clair is able to illuminate a panorama of modern huistory which in its entirety is hard to comprehend.