High Street, Elmina ca
1865 Elmina, Ghana
A view along Elmina's High Street around 1865, showing the town that developed in the shadow of its coastal fort, one of the oldest European structures in sub-Saharan Africa and long a hub of trade along the Gold Coast.
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