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"Slavery's effects are still working themselves out in our lives today”
SOMETIMES AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND CAN open a window onto the past so vivid, so immediate, that it comes like a flash of lightning.
This summer, a discovery was made at an archaeological dig in the small town of Abandze on the coast of Ghana, 70 miles west of Accra. The dig was inside the ruins of Fort Amsterdam, built by the Dutch in the 17th century on a