| The Stayed and Stolen: Building an Immersive Virtual Environment of Cape Coast Castle
Development of an interactive virtual reality experience of Cape Coast Castle, in Cape Coast Ghana, one of the most important sites out of the 40 slave castles or commercial fortresses that dot the coastline of Ghana. This immersive experience centers Africa in the transatlantic slave trade, for use by scholars, teachers, students, and the public.
The Stayed the Stolen: An Immersive Virtual Experience of Cape Coast Castle is an immersive and interactive virtual reality experience of Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast Ghana, one of the most important sites out of the 40 slave castles or commercial forts that dot the coastline of Ghana. The project offers users the opportunity to engage in an immersive experience that centers Africa in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Developed to reach a broad audience of scholars, teachers, students and the general public, The Stayed & The Stolen is an innovative, international project that provides a necessary and critical corrective to digital history projects on the transatlantic slave trade that fail to consider the significance of Africa in this history.
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Project fields:
History, General
Program:
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Division:
Digital Humanities
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Totals:
$99,755 (approved)
$99,755 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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