Kamala Harris tours a 'slave castle' in Ghana

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stepped through the black doors of a colonial-era seaside fort and down into the dungeons, touring a site where millions of enslaved Africans were held captive before they were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas. Vice President Kamala Harris lays a wreath at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana on Tuesday. It was one of around 40 'slave castles' that served as prisons and embarkation points for slaves en route to the Americas Harris and Emhoff look at the cannons as they tour the former 'slave castle' in Ghana Tuesday Last month, first lady Dr. Jill Biden also visited the continent. Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff listen to a guide as they tour Cape Coast Castle Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after her tour of the castle. 'The horror of what happened here must always be remembered,' she said Harris and Emhoff dressed in traditional garb as they arrived in Ghana earlier Tuesday Harris addresses young people gathered on Black Star square in Accra, Ghana, on Tuesday Tour guide Kwesi Blankson said he told the vice president about how captives would sometimes gaze up through the holes in the dungeon ceiling and pray to the gods and sing songs.