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Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post , established in 1555, which was named Cabo Corso .
Dalby Thomas was knighted 1 August 1703 at Windsor Castle -- "of Essex and London, general, and chief director for the Royal Africa Company" [3] Sir Dalby was governor (Agent-general) of Cape Coast Castle, 1703-1711, [4] the main British slave fort on the West African coast. He died in Africa, but his wife Lady Dorothy Thomas and daughter ...
Cape Coast Castle, capital of the British Gold Coast In 1663, a new charter was obtained which also mentioned the trade in slaves . [ 7 ] This was the third English African Company, but it made a fresh start in the slave trade and there was only one factory of importance for it to take over from the East India Company , which had leased it as a ...
Phipps began his career with the Royal African Company in 1703. [2] He served as a writer (a junior employee) at Cape Coast Castle, as agent at James Fort in Accra, and as Chief Agent and Warehouse-Keeper at Cape Coast Castle, before being appointed as the company's Captain-General (with both civil and military authority) on 23 July 1719.
Kamala Harris, the first Black U.S. vice president, on Saturday begins a historic first trip while in office to Africa, with stops scheduled in Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia during her weeklong tour.
After only a year back in Africa, he began work as a writer at Cape Coast Castle, the seat of British power on the Gold Coast some ten miles Southwest of Annamaboe. Employing both his position at Cape Coast Castle and powerful connections in London, Ansah worked with his father, John Corrente, to play the British and French off each other in ...
Tobago, with owner Throckmorton and master, William Mechan (or Mecham), then made two slave voyages carrying slaves from the Gold Coast to British Guiana. [11] [a] On her first slave trading voyage, Tobago sailed from London 12 June 1800. She gathered slaves at Cape Coast Castle and delivered 282 to Demerara on 24 February 1801. [11]
Cape Coast Castle. King's early career was at sea in a variety of vessels involved in the slave trade in the Caribbean and West Africa. In 1766 he went to Africa as second mate on the Royal Charlotte which was transporting the African company's stores to Cape Coast Castle. The ship took on 120 slaves on the Gold Coast. [3]