Barracoon

George Mwinnyaa on his visit to the slave castle at Cape Coast in his homeland of Ghana. The door leads to the cells where captives who were resistant were held prior to being sent over the ocean as slaves.

Opinion: What Zora Neale Hurston's Best-Seller Taught This African About Slavery

3:34pm July 04, 2018

by George Mwinnya

The author grew up in Ghana and had certain impressions of what happened during the slave era. And then he read Barracoon.