Salaga Slave Market historical site

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historical site memorial slave market tourist attraction

The Salaga Slave Market historical site is a preserved location in northern Ghana where enslaved Africans were once traded, now serving as a memorial and educational site on the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trades.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Salaga Slave Market historical site canonical	1
Salaga slave market	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical site ⓘ memorial ⓘ slave market ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
associatedWith	Atlantic coastal slave ports ⓘ enslaved Africans ⓘ slave traders ⓘ trans-Saharan caravan routes ⓘ
category	Historic sites in Ghana ⓘ Sites of the slave trade in Ghana ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Ghana ⓘ
culturalContext	Savannah Region, Ghana ⓘ surface form: Gonja area of northern Ghana
educationalTheme	human rights abuses of slavery ⓘ trade routes linking interior West Africa to the coast ⓘ
governedBy	local authorities in Salaga ⓘ
hasFeature	interpretive signage ⓘ market square ⓘ memorial structures ⓘ
hasFunction	education about slave trade history ⓘ memorialization of slavery ⓘ
hasUse	academic research ⓘ heritage tourism ⓘ
heritageType	cultural heritage site ⓘ
languageOfSignage	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Ghana ⓘ Northern Region of Ghana ⓘ surface form: Northern Region, Ghana Salaga ⓘ
memorializes	victims of the slave trade ⓘ
nearbySettlement	Salaga ⓘ surface form: Salaga town
partOf	trans-Atlantic slave trade network ⓘ trans-Saharan slave trade ⓘ
periodOfUse	19th century ⓘ pre-colonial era ⓘ
purpose	to educate visitors about the slave trade ⓘ to preserve memory of enslaved people traded there ⓘ
region	Northern Region of Ghana ⓘ surface form: northern Ghana
relatedTo	African diaspora history ⓘ Ghanaian history ⓘ history of slavery in West Africa ⓘ
significance	major slave trading center in northern Ghana ⓘ reminder of the impact of slavery on West Africa ⓘ
tourismCategory	dark tourism site ⓘ heritage tourism site ⓘ
usedFor	commerce in enslaved Africans ⓘ slave trading ⓘ

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Ghana Museums and Monuments Board → supervises → Salaga Slave Market historical site ⓘ

Northern Region → hasTouristAttraction → Salaga Slave Market historical site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Salaga slave market