Files under General | Jul
12th
AP reports:
The emotional touchstone of his visit: a tour of Cape Coast Castle, the cannon-lined fortress where slaves were kept in squalid dungeons, then shipped in chains to America through a “Door of No Return” that opens to the sea.
Obama absorbed the experience with his wife, Michelle, and their girls, Sasha and Malia.
“I’ll never forget the image of my two young daughters, the descendants of Africans and African-Americans, walking through those doors of no return but then walking back (through) those doors,” he said later at a grand departure ceremony.
“It was a remarkable reminder that, while the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.”
