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Article: Ghana's Slave Castles.
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- History Today
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- August 1, 1999
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GHANA'S SLAVING PAST, long regarded as too sensitive to even discusss, is now becoming a lively issue. A group of Ghanaians, led by lawyers and tribal chiefs, have convened an Africa-wide meeting to seek `retribution and compensation for the crime of slavery'.
Using the example of recent successes for Jews whose property was confiscated by the Nazis, they cite the misery of millions of African slaves and their descendants, and have called on Western bankers and governments to compensate them by at least lifting the burden of Third World debt. But, as more is discovered about the realities of the tragic trade, some Ghanaians are beginning to wonder how much of the ...