Atlantic 42 The Danish fort that still stands in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, is both named and modeled after Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen, where the Danish royal family lives to this day, in storied splendor; and the old fort at Elmina, built by the Portuguese, had lots of decorative crests and a big sundial. Cape Coast Castle, on the other hand, is almost entirely unadorned, has dungeons with walls fourteen feet thick, four enormous bastions, seventy seaward-facing cannons, and gardens for the resident officers—but until 1820 it did not even have a chapel and gave the appearance of being a place of an overwhelmingly gimcrack creation, offering the outbound slaves only the most wretched venue for their final African farewells.
