Weekend 2, I went to Cape Coast to visit a slave castle. If I had to choose one word to describe it, I would pick eery. It was very neat to see the origin of the Triangular Trade, but it was unlike anything I've seen before. I have obviously seen quite a few remnants of slavery living in the South, but even the worst plantations were nothing compared to the conditions that the people stored (literally stored) in these slave castles had to endure. This is a picture of the door of no return--once people left the Cape Coast slave castle, they were never coming back to Africa.
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