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This chapter examines archaeological representation at Ghana’s coastal forts and castles. During the transatlantic slave trade, such sites were places of captive Africans’ incarceration, as well as the final point of deportation from Africa, prior to the Middle Passage and enslavement in the Americas. Today, African descendants in the diaspora, as heritage tourists and/or pilgrims, journey to visit them, but as contested heritage sites they embody complex and nuanced politics of inclusion, exclusion, representation, remembrance, and commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade. It explores the tensions of interpretation and commercialization of heritage associated with the transatlantic slave trade and the role of autoarchaeology in addressing these. It also turns to the matter of absence, more specifically, what happens when there are few or no objects to exhibit or display. In so doing, it encourages us to rethink the role of materialities in telling stories of the transatlantic slave trade, transgenerational trauma, dislocation, and reclamation. |
