EVENT INFORMATION

30
Ougùstùs
1637

Portuguese garrison yields Elmina Castle to the WIC

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📅 30 Ougùstùs 1637 📍 Ghana

The Portuguese garrison agreed to surrender Elmina Castle to the Dutch. The fort became a major center of Dutch trade and, later, the transatlantic slave trade. Its history must be read through African political authority and the people seized, sold, and transported through the Atlantic system.

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Jan van Brakel

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Dutch West India Company

Portuguese Crown