Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but ...
ADIDWAN, Ghana - Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but also a past that has haunted his family for generations.
This month marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America to work plantations in English colonies. In the centuries after, European slave traders shipped millions of African men, women and children across the Atlantic Ocean. Many died in horrific conditions on the slave boats, while survivors endured a life of misery and backbreaking farm work.
But many rulers of West African empires, such as the Ashanti kingdom, whose descendants still live in this part of modern-day Ghana, also profited, selling captured slaves in exchange for guns, cloth, alcohol and other Western manufactured goods. They did battle with slave raiders, he says. In those fights, sometimes they lost. And sometimes they were captured into slavery.
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