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EU: Cape Coast Castle, outdoor stairs (1966)
1966 Cape Coast, Ghana
Outdoor stairs within Cape Coast Castle are pictured in this 1966 photograph. Built by Swedish traders in the seventeenth century and later expanded by the British, the castle became one of West Africa's principal hubs in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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