Posted on 08/31/2019 12:21:35 PM PDT by Cecily
For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa.
Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle or nearby Cape Coast Castle into the blinding sunlight bouncing off the Atlantic Ocean. Then they were chained and stacked like cordwood onto awaiting boats.
That “Door of No Return” was the grim gateway west to a life of enslavement in Brazil, the Caribbean, and America.
“When you walk out of that door today, even now, it is terrifying,” said Debra Santos, an Atlantan visiting Ghana now. “So they had to be terrified to look out in the distance and see no land and know they weren’t coming back.”
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How long how long? O’Lord?
12th of never.
Until the Twelfth of Never and that’s a long, long time
The USA is barely 200 years old. Slavery has been known for over 7000 years.
The USA is not responsible for slavery as an institution.
Also the USA had indentured Irishmen and Jews and Chinamen as practical “slaves” - not just Africans.
Most Americans today have majority blood from people who were NOT slavers 1776-1853.
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