Cape Corso Castle, the prospect of it on one side (top); A prospect of Cape Corso Castle on the opposite side (bottom)
Both views show African houses/village in the center. Bosman described how "this is the English chief fort, which next to that of St. George d'Elmina is the largest and most beautiful on the whole coast; within it is well furnished with fine and well-built dwelling-places; before it they have also built a high turret to secure the lives of the people of the town, in case of an invasion of hostile Negroes" ( pp. 48-49). Bosman was an official of the Dutch West India Company and chief factor at Elmina. See also Christopher DeCorse, An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001).
Image Title
Cape Corso Castle, the prospect of it on one side (top); A prospect of Cape Corso Castle on the opposite side (bottom)
RegID
SI-OB-117
Date
1704
Title
Cape Corso Castle, the prospect of it on one side (top); A prospect of Cape Corso Castle on the opposite side (bottom)
Source
William Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (London, 1705), facing p. 46, figures 4 and 5 (English translation of Bosman's Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud-, Tand- en Slave-Kust. . . (Utrecht, 1704)). Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Language
English
Item sets
European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Cape Coast
Reproduced In
William Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (London, 1705), facing p. 46, figures 4 and 5 (English translation of Bosman's Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud-, Tand- en Slave-Kust. . . (Utrecht, 1704)).
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
9-May-17
Identifier
D018