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DESPITE Cape Coast and Elmina castles sitting comfortably in the fifth and seventh positions respectively on the Top 10 Most-visited ...
Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured the dungeons of Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle on Tuesday, and said the experience underscored that the history of enslaved people must be ...
On Tuesday she is set to deliver a "major speech to an audience of young people," tour Cape Coast Castle and "speak about the brutality of slavery and the African Diaspora" from that location as well.
The president and his family toured Cape Coast Castle Saturday, an historic departure point in Ghana for untold numbers of slaves bound for America and the Caribbean. After, Barack Obama gave a ...
Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down ...
Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff listen to a guide as they tour Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle, a prison and embarkation point for slaves en route to the Americas.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris lays a wreath at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, Tuesday March 28, 2023. This castle in was one of around 40 "slave castles" that served as prisons and embarkation ...
Cape Coast Castle is one of a number of "slave castles", fortifications in Ghana built by Swedish traders, originally for trade in timber and gold, later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade ...
The vice president visited a castle that was one of the last stops before enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic. "The horror of what happened here must always be remembered," she said.
Cape Coast Castle has become a feature of Western leaders’ visits to West Africa, a way to pay penance for the past sins of the nations that shipped and sold African bodies and chart an ...
Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured the dungeons of Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle on Tuesday, and said the experience underscored that the history of enslaved people must be ...