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Elmina Castle

A 15th-century Portuguese fort that became a center of the Atlantic slave trade, with its Door of No Return.

Photo: Damien Halleux Radermecker · CC BY-SA 2.0
Time Needed
2 hours

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A 15th-century Portuguese fort that became a center of the Atlantic slave trade, with its Door of No Return.

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