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July 13, 2009

Obama Family Visits Former Slave Dungeon in Ghana
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While in Ghana, the President and his family toured Cape Coast Castle, a
seaside fortress used by slave traders starting in the seventeenth
century. The former slave dungeon is now a monument to millions of
Africans cast into slavery.

President Obama: “I think as Americans, and as African Americans,
obviously, there is a special sense that, on the one hand, this place
was a place of profound sadness; on the other hand, it is here where the
journey of much of the African American experience began."



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