TURNING POINTS · 1482
Elmina Castle, Ghana
The Dutch captured the castle in 1637. Today it is a museum and memorial.
The story, as a puzzle
The first fort in the south.
Built by the Portuguese in 1482, this was the first European fort in sub-Saharan Africa. It later held enslaved people in its dungeons before they were shipped across the Atlantic. Pin it.
Where it is
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