Case file · Folklore / legend
The ancestors come home to Assin Manso
On Emancipation Day, 1 August 1998, the remains of two people born into slavery in the Americas, Samuel Carson of the United States and Crystal of Jamaica, were reburied at Assin Manso in Ghana, beside the 'slave river' where captives had their last bath.
1998 CE · 5.70, -1.29 · status: official
The account
Captives marched to the coast castles were washed in the Donkor Nsuo river before sale. Visitors, many from the diaspora, describe the site as a place to meet the spirits of the dead.