Untitled Image (Elmina Castle)

Description

This image of the Voltaic region shows Elmina and another fort from the sea with European shipping in the foreground.

Source

A. W. Lawrence, Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa (Stanford Univ. Press, 1964), plate 11a; original source not identified.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

D016

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Voltaic--Elmina

Item sets

European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa

Citation

"Untitled Image (Elmina Castle)", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 4, 2020, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/600