Elmina Castle https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/elmina-castle/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:54:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Elmina Castle https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/elmina-castle/ 32 32 16720591 Breath of the Ancestors https://www.quakerranter.org/breath-of-the-ancestors/ https://www.quakerranter.org/breath-of-the-ancestors/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:21:50 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/breath-of-the-ancestors/ When I think of Friends in Africa, I generally picture the large East African yearly meetings in Kenya and Uganda which trace their beginnings to three evangelical Friends who arrived in Kenya in 1902 and set up a mission in Kaimosi.

In this month’s Friends Journal Paul Ricketts profiles a smaller Quaker outpost on the Atlantic coast in Ghana. A group of Americans traveled there last year as a delegation of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent.

Ghana was also the departure point of millions of enslaved Africans headed toward death and misery in the Western Hemisphere. Paul takes us to infamous Elmina Castle, where the ships were loaded with chained human cargo. I always enjoy stories of Quaker intervisitation but this one is especially poignant.


Breath of the Ancestors - Friends Journal

Breath of the Ancestors — Friends Journal

The Fellowship of Friends of African Descent travels to Ghana’s Hill House Meeting.
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