While in Ghana, the President and his family toured Cape Coast Castle, a seaside fortress used by slave traders starting in the seventeenth century. The former slave dungeon is now a monument to millions of Africans cast into slavery.

President Obama: “I think as Americans, and as African Americans, obviously, there is a special sense that, on the one hand, this place was a place of profound sadness; on the other hand, it is here where the journey of much of the African American experience began.”