The History of Slavery Is All of Our History - Howard W. French

"One morning this July, I rose early for a several-mile drive along the Ghanaian coast to give a talk at one of the most important historical sites of the modern era: the imposing whitewashed, fortified trading station at Elmina that Ghanaians commonly refer to as a ‘castle.’ I was honored to have been invited there by the country’s government to give a talk about my new book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, but I had little idea of what kind of crowd, if any, would turn out to hear me speak about a book that few in the country would have yet read. Would they be Ghanaians interested in the history of slavery, in which this stretch of the West African coast played a hugely important part? ...”

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Guardian - Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world - - Howard W. French

The interior of Elmina Castle near Cape Coast, Ghana, on Feb. 4, 2008.