A view of Cape Coast castle, on the coast of the town of Cape Coast. This castle was mostly built by the British in the early 1600s (although it was begun by Portuguese and taken over by dutch before British took it over and built most of it). It was mainly used as a store house and market for the slaves they were taking out of West Africa until the slave trade officially ended in Britain in 1807. Altogether some two million West Africans went through this one castle, over half of those died while in the castle or on route to their destinations. It was especially unnerving and emotional when the tour took us into the dungeons where the slaves were kept, conditions were unspeakably bad for them.