Annual commemoration has brought awareness to the "Weeping Time"
Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson knows what slavery smelled like. He was 14 years old and on a trip with friends to Cape Coast Castle, located along the shore of his homeland, the African nation of Ghana. He arrived thinking castles were “associated with kings and queens and knights in shining armor.” He left with the “scent of suffering” in his nostrils. “The fort is built of porous stone that absorbs odors, and when you descend into the dungeons, you can still smell the sweat and other bodily functions of thousands of men who were kept there before being put on ships for the Americas,” De...
Source: savannahnow.com