My friend, the bride-to-be, gave a trigger warning to the busload of her American wedding guests ahead of our day trip to the Elmina ... "Door of No Return" — a glorified hole in the castle's ...

The door banged, leaving us in darkness with no ventilation ... Through the haze was Elmina Castle, on a promontory at the end of the bay. Elmina, Mina de Ouro, The Mine, is named after the ...

ELMINA, Ghana -- Inside the sunlit courtyard ... but perhaps most gripping is the "door of no return," the last stop for captives before they were stripped and branded, then marched to waiting ...

In Ghana, two of the country's most famous spectacles, Elmina Castle and Cape Coast ... were led aboard awaiting ships through the Door of No Return. "... when the ship came, they took them ...

Through a door ... Coast Castle into the blinding sunlight bouncing off the Atlantic Ocean. Then they were chained and stacked like cordwood onto awaiting boats. That “Door of No Return ...

"When you walk the paths of the dungeons at these slave castles, whether it's Elmina or Cape ... at Cape Coast Castle, in Ghana, outside the "Door of No Return", through which enslaved Africans ...

It takes four hours on an un-air-conditioned minibus called a tro-tros to get from Accra, the capital of Ghana, to the town of Elmina ... housed only a door: the "door of no return," an iron ...

For hundreds of years, the Elmina Castle, which sits on the Gulf of ... heads as we went through a dark passage to reach the "Door of No Return" — a glorified hole in the castle's stone wall ...

Through a door ... Coast Castle into the blinding sunlight bouncing off the Atlantic Ocean. Then they were chained and stacked like cordwood onto awaiting boats. That “Door of No Return ...

My friend, the bride-to-be, gave a trigger warning to the busload of her American wedding guests ahead of our day trip to the Elmina ... "Door of No Return" — a glorified hole in the castle's ...