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May 18, 2008 at 1:41 AM

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This article reminded me of a personal experience I had at Goree Island where I saw a ghost at the age of 6 and I was unaware that it was a ghost for my parents did not realize that my screams and cries were a reaction to a what I thought was a human being sitting on the floor of the "door of no return" who was holding her baby. It was an African woman. The vision scared the complete mess out of me for I could smell the stench of urine, vomit and death everywhere. I thought my parents saw it but they did not. Till this day that memory is very clear in my head. It was not a pleasant experience but one that reminded me as I got older of the horrors of slavery.