PHOTOGRAPHS THAT DEPICT THE DREADFUL, TRUE MEANING OF ELMINA CASTLE AND SLAVE FORTRESS: IT WAS A DISASTER IN TERMS OF HUMAN SUFFERING

This photograph depicts a southeastern section of the fortress--looking out over what is now fishing dwellings. There is much fishing there now. The port area, of course, was utilized to facilitate slave ships coming from European ports. At any given time those ships could be from Portugal, Holland, or England...depending on which European power was in control of the Elmina fortress. Perhaps at first glance the buildings look like a Mediterranean Sea recreation complex. No recreation took place here, though. The waiting slave ships were involved in a serious business proposition. Who was it that said "money is the root of all evil?"