Door of No Return1 within the desiccated mouth of its moats, its bloated gold coast walls purged in white a coastal ghost in the eyes of black souls dungeon’d one floor below godless men, one floor above on bent knees singing psalms songs of white ascent: lord sang they, we give praise, our inheritance, plundering seas, ravaging coasts, burning towns, keepers our brothers’ skewered souls, eating out their substance2 we give grace our pick, our perverse will be done to any one of them, man, woman we pick to have it done
Elmina, Ghana-Slave Castlehttps://theculturetrip.com/africa/ghana/articles/ghana-s-slavecastles-the-shocking-story-of-the-ghanaian-cape-coast/ 2 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence 1
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