"Donko Nsuo" Slave River - Assin Manso, Ghana

On the outskirts of Assin Manso is the Slave River where the kidnapped and shackled Africans had the last opportunity to wash down after uncountable days of trekking by foot several hundreds of miles through thick forests and dusty savannah tracks and with little or no food on a North-South journey to the coast. Final inspection and categorization of stolen Africans were then made before they got to the final transit point in the infamous dungeons of the Castles and forts on the coast. Those who were too weak to continue were murdered and buried on the banks of the river. It is believed that the reddish color of this river is due to all the blood spilled into over several years of slave trade. In the Akan language, "donko" means slave and "nsuo" means water. Therefore Donko Nsuo literally means "Slave Water" hence the Slave River. Though this tragic part of history was never documented, the legend has passed on through generations thus the local people have always called the stream Donko Nsuo.

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