JAMES FORT (BRITISH ACCRA)

Fort James (alternatively referred to as James Fort) is a fort located in Accra, Ghana. It was built by the Royal African Company of England (RAC) as a trading post for both gold and slaves in 1673, where it joined the Dutch Fort Crêvecœur (1649), and the Danish Fort Christiansborg (1652) along the coast of the then Gold Coast. Along with other castles and forts in Ghana, Fort James was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 because of its importance during the European colonial period.
Fort James was likely named after James, then Duke of York, later King James II, who was Governor of the RAC at the time it was built and after whom the adjacent town of Jamestown in Accra is also named.
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Jamesfort was built in 1672, with a royal charter granted by King James II of great Britain and was the center of the British Administration of the Gold Coast until the 1850s. It was a marketplace and storage center for British traders and their African counterparts. It was one of the major outposts for the slavetrade in the 17th , 18th and early 19th century. After the slave trade was abolished it was used as a prison by the British as well as the subsequent Ghanaian governments. It was decommissioned about 15 years ago and is now a museum.