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Harris, in Africa, confronts painful past, envisions future

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stepped through the black doors of a colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, touring a site where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.

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Times of India

Harris Confronts Painful Past In Africa: Harris, in Africa, confronts painful past, envisions future

Rest of World News: US Vice President Kamala Harris visited Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a former slave trading post, where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive

1 year ago·India

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CTV News

Harris, in Africa, confronts painful past, envisions future

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stepped through the black doors of a colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, touring a site where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.

1 year ago·Canada

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Associated Press News

Harris, in Africa, confronts painful past, envisions future

Vice President Kamala Harris has visited a site in Ghana where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas. During her

1 year ago·United States

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USA Today

Kamala Harris confronts painful past in Ghana

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff entered the black doors of the colonial-era Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. (March 29)

1 year ago·United States

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CNN

Harris faces painful Black history in emotional slave outpost visit

Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost's dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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