clay and ceramics

shelf 1

The large blue and white platter depicts a large three-masted ship and smaller ships before a castle-like structure. The activity of loading the large merchant vessel with goods is seemingly taking place, but here the cargo is that of human beings. Originally built as trade post for commodities, Cape Coast Castle in West Africa (now Ghana) became a center of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s.

 

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