The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade

William St Clair
$18.95
Publication Date: February 1st, 2009
Publisher:
BlueBridge
ISBN:
9781933346168
Pages:
288
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Description

Called one of the best books of the year by The Economist, the London Times, and Publishers Weekly, this is the gripping history of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, the African headquarters of the British slave trade for nearly one hundred and fifty years--until the legal trade was abolished in 1807.

About the Author

William St Clair is a former senior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. He has also held senior positions in the British Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, and the Treasury, and is the author of "The Godwins and the Shelleys," "Lord Elgin and the Marbles," and" The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period."