Dutch Reformed Church: The 17th Century Church Built Directly Over a Dungeon Holding Enslaved Africans in Ghana - TalkAfricana

Dutch Reformed Church: The 17th Century Church Built Directly Over a Dungeon Holding Enslaved Africans in Ghana - TalkAfricana

The church was built directly above the women’s dungeon. While enslaved Africans suffered in the darkness below, European traders, soldiers, and clergy conducted worship services, read scriptures, and sang hymns in the chapel above, indifferent, to the horrors beneath. Elmina Castle, officially known as St. George’s Castle, stands on the rocky Atlantic coast of present‑day […] TalkAfricana