Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured the dungeons of Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle on Tuesday. 'The horror of what happened here must always be remembered. It cannot be denied. It must be taught. History must be learned,” she said.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff wipes away a tear as he and Vice President Harris tour Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle.Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff wipes away a tear as he and Vice President Harris tour Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle.Harris, the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit Africa, is also visiting Tanzania and Zambia duringKwesi Blankson guided Harris and Emhoff on their tour. He told reporters that it was a solemn moment.
"I told her about the dungeons and women especially, how they held in the dungeons and how they looked up through the holes to and pray to the sky god for redemption and how some of them sang," Blankson said, adding that he sang one of the songs for Harris that was about the problems of life.The vice president said she planned to carry the anguish and pain from Cape Coast Castle with her, and use it to fight for freedom and justice.
"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," Harris said."All of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice."
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