Church of England Chapel: The Colonial-Era Church Built Above a Slave Dungeon Holding Enslaved Africans in Ghana
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Thousands of enslaved Africans were imprisoned inside the dark underground dungeons of Cape Coast Castle in colonial Ghana before being forced onto slave ships crossing the Atlantic. Directly above one of those dungeons stood the Church of England Chapel, where British colonial officials worshipped while enslaved Africans suffered beneath them. For centuries, the massive white […] TalkAfricana
