We, the undersigned, are petitioning the Museums and Monuments Board and The Government of Ghana to amend the names of these edifices to read "Cape Coast Castle/Dungeons and Elmina Castle/Dungeons", which reflects the whole truth of our collective experience.
Why is this important?
Enslaved Africans during the European Slave Trade in Ghana, West Africa were brutally housed in the bowels of the castles; Castles was NOT their collective experience; for they languished in the dark, dirty and rodent infested "Dungeons" of the Castles, being raped, tortured and inhumanly treated, before being brutally shipped to the Americas and the Caribbean to be sold into slavery.
