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	Cape Coast - Wikipedia
		Cape Coast ist die Hauptstadt der Central Region von Ghana.
		Von 1664 bis 1877 war Cape Coast die Hauptstadt dieser Kolonie und der Sitz des britischen Gouverneurs.
		Ein wichtiges Monument der Stadt ist Cape Coast Castle, zunächst als Handelsstützpunkt gegründet, dann Ausgangspunkt für die Verschiffung des Großteils der Sklaven in die "Neue Welt".
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Coast (220 words)

	Cape Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cape Coast, or Cabo Corso, is the capital of the Central Region of Ghana, located by the Gulf of Guinea.
		Cape Coast is the seat of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana's leading university in teaching and research.
		Cape Vars, as it is popularly called, is one of the very few universities in the world that lies on a sea front, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Coast (272 words)

	Tim in Togo - Places (Lomé)
		The cape coast castle is one of two nearly fully preserved slave castles, the other in Elmina about 30km away, both on the coast of Ghana.
		This is the courtyard of the cape coast castle.
		Once the slave trade was abolished, the tunnel under the castle that led to the door of no return was sealed on both ends, symbolically representing the end of slave transfer, and to prevent corrupt people from sneaking in and continuing the use of the castle.
	www.berezny.com /tim/Togo/places_ghana_cape.htm (1256 words)

	CAPE COAST - Online Information article about CAPE COAST
		CAPE COAST, a port on the Gold Coast, British West Africa, in 5 5' N., 1 13' W., about 8o m.
		Next to the castle, used as quarters for military officers and as a prison, the principal buildings are the residence of the
		In 16J9 the Dutch obtained possession, but the castle was seized in 1664 by the English under Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir) Robert Holmes, and it has not since been captured in spite of an attack by De Ruyter in 1665, a French attack in 1757, and various assaults by the native tribes.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CAPE_COAST.html (515 words)

	Images of the Gold Coast (West Africa), 1870-1890 - Cape Coast Castle, main gate
		Cape Coast is the former British Capital of the Gold Coast, situated circa 15 kilometres east of Elmina.
		All photo's of Cape Coast show views of the town and were most likely bought by him.
		Cape Coast Castle was headquarters of the British government in the Gold Coast from 1652 to 1875.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~doortmon/WebDocs/Images%20of%20the%20Gold%20Coast/0000001d.htm (278 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical ...
		Because Cape Coast Castle was the companys administrative center, it was the duty of the governor and his council to establish and maintain these relationships.
		The Cape Coast canoemen served the company for economic, political, diplomatic and administrative reasons and for their labor they received a wage — usually in the form of alcohol, tobacco or textiles.
		The major problem for the company was when it received Cape Coast Castle from the Royal African Company it was in a decrepit state as it was built from earthen bricks and the rainy seasons had taken their toll.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/interactions/reese.html (4891 words)

	Slave Castles and Diaspora of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As such, a series of castles, forts and outposts were developed along the country's coast to protect and enhance trade from the interior to waiting cargo ships.
		Although Ghana was originally called the Gold Coast in honor of one of its still abundant resources, an economic cornerstone of its markets quickly became the trade in human flesh- a characteristic unfortunately shared across the continent and especially with its neighbor, Dahomey (now Bein/Togo, then ruled by the Fon dynasty.
		A few, including Cape Coast Castle and Elmina, have been restored and are now World Heritage Sites, protecting the stories and histories of the millions that passed through in export to the New World.
	www.atidekate.com /Diaspora.htm (1701 words)

	About Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cape Coast Castle, one of the best preserved, is becoming an official museum of the Slave Trade.
		The forts and castles along the coast of Ghana date back to the 15th Century and were built and occupied at different times by European traders and adventurers from Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Britain to safeguard trading posts.
		CAPE COAST- Fort Victoria- Built by the English in 1702.
	www.africaonline.com.gh /Tourism/about.html (572 words)

	Cape Coast Castle
		When you see on the wall the mark showing how high the floor was packed with the filth and everything that fell in it, you are ready to move on to the next exhibit.
		The castle has been so sanitized as to be -- well, if not quite unreal, then wholly un-African, remote from everything around and outside it.
		The coast for 80 klm in each direction is dotted with dozens of other fortified holding pens.
	kuster-web.net /homepage_locations/f_ghana/Cape/capecoastcastle.htm (393 words)

	Slave Castles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Cape Coast Castle was built principally for commercial trading purposes, initially between the "natives" (as the local people were then called) and the European traders who came to our shores.
		Thus, it is clear that the Gold Coast then appeared to all the European powers as the most favorable country from which they could carry out their trade more profitably than in any other African territory.
		The Cape Coast Castle described as one of the six most beautiful in existence today has an interesting but checkered history.
	www.theviproom.com /visions/slave.htm (1129 words)

	1581-1582 (Nordisk familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 2. Barometer - Capitularis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cape Coast Castle [kep kast kaslj, stad och hufvudort i den engelska kolonien på Guldkusten i Guinea i Afrika.
		Cape lia, astron., en stjerna af första storleken i stjernbilden Auriga.
		Cape lia, Galeazzo Flavio Capra, stundom kallad endast Galeazzo, italiensk skriftställare och statsman, f.
	www.lysator.liu.se /runeberg/nfab/0799.html (801 words)

	Abas place: Holidays: Ghana: Cape Coast Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cape Coast Castle is one of the sites of the slave trade and has existed since the late 17th Century with various additions since.
		Cape Coast castle has a really good museum which documents the slave trade.
		On a lighter note, as well as being able to find out more about both castles' sinister past you get some great views of the towns and beaches and the sea breeze is a welcome escape from the heat.
	www.aba.clara.net /abasplace/ghana03/castle.html (141 words)

	Cape Coast Region of Ghana - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The area in Africa, which was involved in the transatlantic slave trade, was the Guinea Coast.
		The coast of the present day Republic of Ghana, is littered with the highest concentration of forts and castles than any other coastline in Africa.
		Some of the most important ones are Elmina Castle, Cape Coast Castle, Christianborg Castle, Fort Crevecour, James Fort, Axim Fort etc.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /cape_coast.htm (879 words)

	Aba's Place: Holidays - Ghana 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The next day we headed up the coast to Saltpond which was a good base for Cape Coast, Elmina and surrounds.
		Elmina Castle, built by the Portugese was particularly oppressive.
		Cape Coast Castle was built by the Dutch.The castle has a good museum which documents the history of the slave trade.
	www.aba.clara.net /abasplace/ghana03/holidaysghana03.htm (569 words)

	ghanadec19
		Elmina Castle is one of the best known of the many castles lining this part of the west African coast.
		The castle is located on a point of land near Elmina harbor, with its walls overlooking beautiful sand beaches and palm trees.
		In Cape Coast, one brother in particular prayed in one of the local dialects and prayed for us as part of his prayer.
	home.att.net /~bgray92/dec21/ghanadec21.htm (1165 words)

	Cape Coast Slave Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The northern side of the castle was significantly extended, creating a new bastion which ended in what is still known as 'Greenhill's Point'.
		This area provided protection for the strip of coast east of the castle, the sole area at which canoes could safely land Expansion also included a new building which was created on the southern end of the castle, overlooking the sea, and a rather low platform on which a number of guns could be mounted.
		Despite the various renovations that took place between 1673 and 1694, Cape Coast Castle retained approximately three quarters of the structure of the original Swedish fort.
	www.rootsandrooted.org /castles/capecoast.html (464 words)

	Cape Coast Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cape Coast Castle is described as one of the six most "beautiful" slave castles still in existence.
		It was originally built int he 1650s by the Swedes and is almost with a cannon shot of the Portuguese built slave castle, Elmina.
		Today it is the Museum of Slavery, created by the Smithsonian Institue, and now caters to the increasing number of African Americans who arrive searching for their roots.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~rmcamara/page7.htm (143 words)

	Ghana: Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cape Coast is one of the most historical cities in Ghana.
		It was the center of British Administration and capital of the Gold Coast by 1700 until 1877 when the capital was moved to Accra.
		The Cape Coast castle is one of the biggest of the trade and slave castles on the coastline of Ghana.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/geography/cape-coast.php (85 words)

	Africa Stage: Abeja Dispatch - August 18, 1999
		This castle was the seat of the British administration of their Gold Coast colonies, and the British slave trade, for almost 200 years.
		When the Americas were colonized, this castle became a major center in what is known as the triangular trade route.
		Running under the castle, there was a long passageway from the men's chamber to the women's, next to the door of no return.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/africa/081899/081899abejacastle.html (1495 words)

	East to West across the S. A Sub-continent - SCDX \| bloemfontein \| drakensberg mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The vast expanses of space and silence, drought, and blazing sunshine on the arid landscape have kept this region sparsely populated except for a few families of the remaining Bushmen living in the remote areas.
		We continue southwards to Cape Town and are greeted with some magic views of Table Mountain in the distance as we approach.
		The tour terminates in Cape Town and the tour will be in your memory as an extraordinary and a once in a lifetime experience.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/2243.html (1055 words)

	Conferences - Cape Coast 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Castle is a grim reminder of the legacy of slavery and the slave trade, and as a symbol its "door of no return" highlights the tragedy underlying the them of the conference.
		The conference is sponsored by the University of Cape Coast and the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora at York University, in collaboration with the UNESCO Slave Route Project.
		Optional actvities for the afternoon of the 9 November will include changing money into the local currency at the bank and visit to the Elmina Castle, Fee for visiting the castle is the equivalent in local currency of US$10 per person.
	www.yorku.ca /nhp/conferences/cape_coast/index.htm (657 words)

	Worldisround - My Trip to Ghana West Africa - Photograph - Cape Coast Castle
		Africa picture - This was the castle that held hundreds of Africans before they were shipped to Europe, and America to be sold into slavery.
		Men and woman and their families being torn apart never to see eachother again, shackled to dungen walls not able to see daylight, crammed together in a very tight hole.
		This was the castle that held hundreds of Africans before they were shipped to Europe, and America to be sold into slavery.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/12199/photo1.html (169 words)

	Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa.
		BOWDICH, THOMAS EDWARD: Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa.
		In 1814 Bowdich obtained a writership in the service of the African Company of Merchants and was sent to Cape Coast.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/dur/39028.shtml (294 words)

	Akwaaba - Castles & Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The forts and castles along the coast of Ghana date back to the 15th Century and were built
		It is likele that there was a Portuguese lodge in the middle of the 16th century(probably by 1576).
		Rebulit and used as a residence of the British Gorvenor of Gold Coast, 1877-1957.
	www.akwaaba.com.gh /castle.html (227 words)

	Cape Coast Hostels, Cape Coast Jugendherberge und billige Hotels - Cape Coast, Ghana - Hostels Central
		Cape Coast Hostels, Cape Coast Jugendherberge und billige Hotels - Cape Coast, Ghana - Hostels Central
		Cape Coast Hostels, Cape Coast Jugendherberge und billige Hotels - Cape Coast, Ghana
		The Demò Hotel is situated 100 meters from the Station Centers of Milan; an ideal position for to reach all parts of the city...
	www.hostel-central.com /stadt-99.html (330 words)

	Colona Castle Manor House - Accommodation - Boutique Hotel in Muizenberg, South Peninsula, Cape Town, Cape Peninsula, ...
		Colona Castle offers the discerning visitor a comfortably elegant base from which to explore Cape Town and all places of interest in the beautiful Cape Peninsula and Winelands.
		Colona Castle have been awarded a Five Star grading by the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa, and now cater for exquisite dinners and lunches specially prepared by our Gourmet Chef.
		COLONA CASTLE is the first property on the left.
	www.safarinow.com /go/colonacastle (1050 words)

	International Projects - Africa
		The Smithsonian is collaborating with three other organizations in an integrated program to stimulate tourism through conservation and development of the natural and cultural heritage of Ghana's central region.
		The Institution is providing technical training for Ghanaian museum personnel and has overseen the design and building of a museum workshop at the Cape Coast Technical College.
		An exhibition entitled 'Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade' was produced for the Cape Coast Castle Museum.
	www.si.edu /intrel/internat/africa.htm (1525 words)

	Cape Coast hostels, Cape Coast cheap hostels - Hostels Central
		Cape Coast hostels, Cape Coast cheap hostels - Hostels Central
		Cape Coast hostels, Cape Coast cheap hostels online booking
		Here is a list of all Cape Coast hostels, cheap hotels, BandB's, guest houses in Cape Coast, Ghana which can be booked online with Hostels Central.
	www.hostel-central.com /city-99.html (403 words)

	Ghana Togo Benin - The Tribal Kingdoms adventure travel tours
		Drive to Cape Coast Castle, a fortress that was built by the Swedes in 1653.
		The Castle and its museum are of considerable interest and the town is now a colorful thriving fishing port where hundreds of huge wooden fishing canoes are anchored.
		To the north a short distance is the Ashanti capital of Kumasi that was also once a British colonial administrative center.
	www.lostfrontiers.com /gtb/gtb_tribal.html (1053 words)

	Cape Coast castle, about two hours from Accra
		Cape Coast castle, about two hours from Accra
		Here is a view of the Cape Coast castle from the beach.
		Besides its beauty and fantastic location amidst the crashing waves, the castle carries historical significance as a result of its role during the colonial period.
	www.volu.org /pictures/capecoast.html (62 words)

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