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Visiting Assin Manso Ancestral Slave River Park, once one of the largest slave markets of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, offers a profoundly moving prelude to the Cape Coast Slave Castle, allowing you to literally follow the footsteps of African American ancestors along the final link in the route from northern Ghana’s interior to the coastal forts. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, fueled by the demand for labor on European plantations and mines, exchanged manufactured goods like tobacco, spirits, and cloth for human lives, who were then forcibly shipped across the ocean—the infamous Middle Passage—to produce commodities that merchants would sell back in Europe. Here, at Assin Manso, you stand amid this tangible legacy of resilience and tragedy, gaining a deeper understanding of Africa’s central role in shaping the modern world.