In 2004, Joseph Tetteh-Ashong, known as Paa Joe, was commissioned to make thirteen sculptures of still-existing forts along the Gold Coast of West Africa. He visited fortresses like this one, which are today utilized by the Ghanaian government but were built by European colonial powers hundreds of years ago, initially as trading posts for raw materials such as gold. These sites became horrific prisons where Africans trafficked into slavery were held before being forced onto ships destined for the Americas and the Caribbean, a traumatic past that Paa Joe memorializes to remind us “that we can’t maltreat fellow human[s].”