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MichMan

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1. Why isn't Ghana responsible for paying reparations ?
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 06:20 PM
Mar 2023

After walking down a path where enslaved people once marched in chains to waiting ships, Vice President Kamala Harris entered a dungeon in Cape Coast, Ghana, where captive women had sung songs praying for death. If nothing else, her tour guide said on Tuesday, they believed death would bring freedom.

Ms. Harris, wiping her face and visibly emotional, walked outside this former slave port and connected the past to the present“The descendants of the people that walked through that door were strong people, proud people, people of deep faith who loved their families, their traditions, their culture,” Ms. Harris said during her visit to the port, called Cape Coast Castle, used for the slave trade in the 17th century. Those people, she added, “went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world.”





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