Jul 11th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Accra, Ghana -- The castle stands on the shores of the western coast of Africa, a forbidding compound with dark dungeons where captives lived in sweltering heat with only tiny vents to let in fresh air before they were shipped off to slavery in the New World.
Near the Cape Coast castle stands a small chapel where slave traders attended services steps away from the misery.
As President Obama visited the fortress and slave outpost Saturday, he said the juxtaposition reminded him of the former concentration camp he toured in Germany last month.
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