http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/07/obama-visits-ghana-and-cape-coast-castle/ Exploring the Legacy of Slavery and Race in the United States Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/07/obama-visits-ghana-and-cape-coast-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-6453 Troy Nixon Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:55:21 +0000 http://living.jdewperry.com/?p=1558#comment-6453 Us African American's ancestors had to be a hell of a strong people to endure the hell & horrors of the slave trade-being packed in dungeons like sardines for weeks & then being packed into the bottoms of slave ships like sardines being shackled & chained in anguish & their own waste on voyages that lasted anywhere from 5 to 20 weeks or an average of 80 to 90 days. Us African American’s ancestors had to be a hell of a strong people to endure the hell & horrors of the slave trade-being packed in dungeons like sardines for weeks & then being packed into the bottoms of slave ships like sardines being shackled & chained in anguish & their own waste on voyages that lasted anywhere from 5 to 20 weeks or an average of 80 to 90 days.

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