The “Door Of No Return” Opens – The African Holocaust of Enslavement
Each year some Caribbean countries commemorate Emancipation Day – the day chattel slavery was formally abolished in Britain and it’s colonies. This excerpt is taken from the rare video, The Great Home Coming”. It documents the first Emancipation Day commemoration on the African continent, which took place in July – August 1998 in Ghana, West Africa.
Kramanti and Abandze are twin-fishing villages in Ghana and also were one of the important and historic trading centers of the Dutch and English.
On this day, the remains of two ancestors who were enslaved Africans, Crystal from Jamaica, West Indies and Samuel Carson from the United States of America, return through the infamous Door Of No Return at Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast (Oguaa), Ghana. The Castle at Cape Coast was where many enslaved Africans were forcefully held before their journey on the Middle Passage. Crystal and Samuel Carson were also returned for re internment in the motherland.
Minnie’ Phillips lead the delegation from Jamaica, West Indies to Ghana and the late Sonny Abubadika Carson lead the US delegation accompanied by Professor James Smalls, Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, Dr Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Roseland Jefferies and Nana Kimati Dinizulu to name a few.
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