The Vice President of the United States and now Democratic Party presidential nominee was in Ghana in March 2023 as part of her historic tour of some selected African countries.
As part of her tour, Kamala Harris visited the Cape Coast Castle, one of the many dungeons used to harbour and transport slaves during the era of the slave trade.
There, emotions fled as the US Vice President embarked on a tour of the castle together with her husband, Douglas Emhoff.
As they walked down toward the dungeon for women and the "Door of No Return," where slaves were forced onto ships, Kamala was seen again overwhelmed with emotion and wiping her face.
She stood there for a moment, hands on her hips, at one point wiping her face again.
Kamala was spotted with flowers as she came out of the female dungeon and placed them in an adjacent room.
The US Vice President, who is of ‘Jamaican-Indian’ descent, stood to address the audience after all she encountered in the slave dungeons, and she struggled with words at a point.
Her voice shook, and she took pauses in her speech at some point.
“Being here was immensely powerful and moving," Harris said after touring the grounds, her voice breaking with emotion.
“When we think about human beings retrieved by the hundreds of thousands, in this very place that we now stand, The crimes that happened here. The blood that was shed here."
According to reports, Kamala Harris’ speech, which was prepared for the tour, was placed on a stand before it commenced, but afterward, the remarks she actually gave were mostly off the cuff.
Kamala Harris is expected to face former President Donald Trump, the nominee of the Republican Party, in the pending November presidential election in the US.
Harris, who has broken several records by becoming the vice president of the US, including being the first female vice president of the country, would be its first female president if she beats Trump in November 2024.
Watch the video of Harris during the tour below:
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