Monday, April 14, 2008

Evil men

On Saturday we hopped in an 11 person VW van and went 2 hours through
the Ghanaian country side to the old capital of Ghana, Cape Coast.
There we went to one of the largest and most important slave castles in
the Atlantic slave trade.
It was a sobering experience. Our guide started off the tour by taking
us to the women's quarters. We entered into the small chambers where 400
women were crammed in at one time. I could barely stand the smell for
3 minutes as we stood inside the place where they ate, slept and
relieved themselves. It must have been miserable! The governors
quarters were conveniently right above them with window and a trap door.
They would pick one they liked and rape them. If they became pregnant
they would send them elsewhere to have their child. The men had
similarly poor, dank living conditions. Those who did not cooperate
were put into a room with no lights and left there to die from
starvation.
Will all these atrocities and many more going on within the walls of
this evil place, they had a chapel in the middle of the courtyard. It
is unbelievable to me to see the hypocrisy these people practiced. The
castle was littered with signs saying how holy and just the leaders of
these castles were. These evil men wielding power pretended to be God
fearing, just men.

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