This video is a clip from Episode 1 of an Uplands Production for Channel 5, in association with the Smithsonian Channel. The series explores how the history of slavery has shaped the modern world. In this episode, Hugh Quarshie, a Ghana-born British actor, visits Christiansborg (Osu) Castle to meet with Dr Rachel Engmann, the Project Director. He wants to find out more about the role of the Castle in the transatlantic slave trade. He is visibly moved by a visit to the dungeons and Rachel’s description of how captive Africans were held there. They stood, sat or lay there in their own human waste. Sometimes they died there. Those who survived were transported to the Danish West Indies and a life of slavery on the plantations.
