About this tour

The Assin Manso Slave River Site served as the place where slaves had their last bath on African soil before being marched down to the slave castles of Elmina and Cape Coast along the coast. The site was referenced as the “great depot” through which the Asantes sent slaves to the coast and served as one of the largest eighteenth-century slave markets. Here, slaves were fed and allowed to rest for several days or weeks.

In 1998, Assin Manso was re-inscribed onto the map of African-diasporic historical imagination through the reburial of two slave ancestors (one from Jamaica, one from the United States) as part of an Emancipation day ceremony.