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Museum Bronbeek - Foto van Kasteel Elmina, Elmina, Ghana, 1870

Museum Bronbeek - Foto van Kasteel Elmina

1870 Elmina, Ghana

Elmina Castle photographed in 1870, decades after the Dutch had taken over the Portuguese-built fortress that dominates this stretch of Ghana's coast, by then long past its original role in the transatlantic slave trade.

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