""Slavery is not the only story about black people. It’s only a small story! Don’t they know that if tomorrow a slave ship arrived at Elmina to carry us to America, so many Ghanaians would climb on board that this ship would sink to the bed of the ocean from our weight?" He laughed. I couldn’t help laughing myself. But who was the butt of the joke?"
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Searching for Zion (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013), ch. 15 (p. 223) — Elolo loq.
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