Vice Pres. Kamala Harris grows emotional describing 'blood' and 'crimes' after touring infamous slave post in Ghana: 'The horror of what happened here must always be remembered. It cannot be denied. It must be taught. History must be learned.'
, where Africans were held captive before being sent to the Americas and Caribbean.
"There are dungeons here where human beings were kept. Men, women and children. They were kidnapped from their homes. They were transported hundreds of miles from their homes, not really sure where they were headed. And they came to this place of horror," Harris said.
She emerged from the female dungeon with flowers, placing them in an adjacent room where others had also left them on the floor against a wall. The docent who accompanied the vice president at Cape Coast Castle said to reporters that she told Harris how the captives in the dungeons would look up, through the holes of the walls and ceilings around them to the sky beyond and pray for redemption.
"The descendants of the people who walked through that door were strong people, proud people, people of deep faith. People who loved their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them," Harris said. Despite the horrors they endured, their descendants "went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice, in the United States of America and around the world," she said.
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