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Courtyard with slave trading hall at Fort St. George in Elmina

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Courtyard with slave trading hall at Fort St. George in Elmina

Temminck Groll, Coenraad Liebrecht

Courtyard with slave trading hall at Fort St. George in Elmina.

Label on reverse of photograph reads: oorspr.: Portugese kerk.

Around 1953 the fort was being used as a police academy.

Fort St. George at Elmina was the headquarters of the WIC governor on the gold coast after being captured in 1637 from the Portuguese.

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