Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is an opinion column. May those who return find their roots… —Words from a plaque at the Cape Coast Slave Castle in Ghana I ...

Extracted from: Public archaeology (London) 3 (4) 2004, pages 195-204. Illustrations. Explores the contradictory positions of African Americans and Ghanaians vis-a-vis the restoration of Elmina Castle ...

CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at a 17th-century slave fortress in Ghana on Wednesday, vowing never to forget where Africans were held before being shipped ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Rev. Terrlyn Curry Avery stood in the darkness of a dungeon beneath a castle in Ghana, the emptiness revealing how her ancestors must have suffered in that place. “Enslaved people ...

“More than 400 years ago one race was subjected to one of the worst atrocities to ever happen on the earth. And we haven’t fully recovered. This place is a place for healing. Regardless of where you ...