Description:

Extract reporting on Dixcove trading fort, on the West Coast of Africa. Europeans used forts such as Dixcove as bases for trading along the West African coast. These trading forts were used for temporarily housing enslaved Africans until they could be loaded onto waiting ships anchored nearby.

From Report from the Select Committee on the Coast of West Africa; together with the minutes of evidence , 1842.

Date: 1842

Copyright: Copyright British Empire Commonwealth Mu

Object ID:1996/24/6442