1-217-018 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, c1890. The Castle was originally built for the trade in timber and gold, and was later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In 1957, the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to become independent, and was renamed Ghana. An engraving from Robert Brown's The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890).