First Lady Makes Emotional Visit to Former Slave Outpost in Ghana

US First Lady Melania Trump tours with Museum Educator Kwesi Essel-Blankson, the Cape Coast Castle, a former slave trading fort, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Oct. 3, 2018. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
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First Lady Melania Trump visited a 17th-century castle along Ghana’s coast that once served as a holding facility for the transatlantic slave trade, on the second day of her solo trip to Africa.

Trump vowed to never forget the conditions in which Africans were held before they were shipped across the Atlantic. She described the day’s events as an “emotional” experience and laid a wreath at Cape Coast Castle, a 17th-century fortress.

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Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
Bowen Xiao was a New York-based reporter at The Epoch Times. He covers national security, human trafficking and U.S. politics.
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