During the Transatlantic Slave era, while many slaves lived in fear of their oppressors, the story at Fort Amsterdam at Abandze in the Central Region was different.
For the slaves who were labelled as stubborn and locked up in the condemned cells, their captors had a tough time controlling them even when they were bound in chains and shackles.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb’s Etsey Atisu, Joseph Kofi Kakraba, Caretaker and Tour Guide at the fort, recounted how some enslaved Africans resisted their captors using spiritual powers.
“The condemned cells here was used to keep slaves; the stubborn and rebellious ones but the reason is they (the captors) couldn’t control the slaves.
“If you see a Bible with them, (slaves) there was something behind it. They also had some juju in them because of that they were in chains and shackles, but even in chains and shackles, they fought the soldiers at the courtyard and when the (captors) were annoyed and took the gun to shoot, the bullets just fall down, it couldn’t enter their bodies,” he stated.
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