HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE - ON GHANA'S CAPE COAST

GHANA GRAND TOUR
Panafest- Emancipation Tours
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Cape Coast Castles
Kente Weavers
Durbar Ceremony
Roadside Commerce
Tour Sites
Ghana Fashions
Bead Making Art
Slave River-

WORLD CONGRESS
Photos 1 - Congress Activities
Photos 2 -More Activities
Photos 3 - Gala Events
Photos 4 - ATA Trade Show
Photos 5 - Delegates
Photos 6 - Gala Fashion Show

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Photos on this page by Muguette Goufrani

The Cape Coast Slave Castles - Ghana

ATA Host Day presentation stage at Elmina Slave Castle

View of Cape Coast Castle

Giant sundial at Elmina Slave Castle

Elmina Slave Castle entrance

Elmina Castle in the background from coastal highway

Black History Museum

(also see Museums Page)

"The museum, to be called the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, is expected to take several years and more than $400 million to build, said one of the bill's supporters, Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania." It will be part of the Smithsonian Institution.

A separate museum on the black American experience can be justified, given the central significance of slavery in American history and the extraordinary efforts of Americans to listen to the better angels of our nature and create a nation based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence. But the likelihood the endeavor will be ideologically tainted is unavoidable; simply consider the dubious quality of the American History museum's frequent assaults on American political principles and just plain history.

The best result to come of a black American history museum would be its simplicity-- a plain retelling of the black experience with a minimum of embellishment. By way of advice, note the exchange between John Eastman (see The Remedy, Sept. 6and me about the new museum on the Constitution, in Philadelphia

Photos on this page by Muguette Goufrani during ATA 31st Congress and Grand Post Tour of Ghana