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Journey Along The Slave Route explores the continuing legacy of slavery for the African Diaspora and the people of Ghana.
For 400 years Ghana was an important nexus of the transatlantic slave trade with bases established by eight European powers on Ghana's Atlantic coast.
The documentary interweaves the history of slavery in Ghana, with the present day personal stories of a group of African American tourists as they travel through Ghana visiting communities in towns and villages situated along the so called slave route.
The slave route is actually not one road but a network of paths used by slave traders for more than 500 years. Initially, the routes were used to deliver human cargo to markets in North Africa and the Middle East. That changed with the advent of the trans-Atlantic trade when merchants started heading southwards to the European bases on the Atlantic coast. On arrival at the coast, the slaves were kept in dungeons until ships arrived to take them to the new world.
In 2007 this project will be part of a series of events to commenorate the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1807.
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