Comments on Cape Coast Daily Photos: Where are you?

beautiful words and photo :)

2008-03-20T11:41:00.000-07:00

beautiful words and photo :)

An excellent piece and I like how the poem and pho...

2007-09-13T12:20:00.000-07:00

An excellent piece and I like how the poem and photograph work together.

You do ask about any errors so I would suggest that in line 3 it should be "we learnt to walk" [past tense] and in line 5 "held" not "hold".
In line 4 I think you mean "thought" rather than "taught" - but this minor nit-picks do not distract from the power of the piece.

We often do not think about how hard the slave tra...

2007-09-06T19:30:00.000-07:00

We often do not think about how hard the slave trade must have been on families. We have the tendency to separate ourselves from those who were taken into slavery and think that somehow those families were different from our own families...that somehow they didn't feel the separation and the trauma as badly as we would.

I watch on tv the desperation of bewildered parents as they search for their missing children and think to myself that this is what it must have been like back then when a family member went missing, stolen, into the slave trade...leaving a mother, child, wife behind wondering...never knowing.

Nice photo, I love the framing of the landscape be...

2007-08-30T17:55:00.000-07:00

Nice photo, I love the framing of the landscape beyond by the arched opening of the wall in the foreground.

I saw a scene similar to this on a TV show once. S...

2007-08-30T17:40:00.000-07:00

I saw a scene similar to this on a TV show once. Some Americans visited a site in Ghana where many of their ancestors had been stolen away aboard ships to head for a life of slavery. It was a very moving experience for them as visitors, and for me as a viewer.