SLO# 5 Slaves of the Gold Coast (What I Learned)

After researching information I gathered from the Voyages database, I learned the principle region of Trans-Atlantic slave ships on the Gold Coast had a deep history of slavery. From the fourteenth through the eighteenth century, there were many forms of slavery including Castle Slaves who worked in European trading forts, enslaved gold miners and captives of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The levels of slavery differed yet they all were viewed as property without free will. As slavery on the Gold Coast evolved with the migration of millions of slaves through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Castle Slaves played an important role in connecting cultures and language.