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Ghana draws African-American tourists with ‘Year of Return’

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Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America. Caleb is among the African-American visitors flocking to Ghana as it marks the “Year of Return” to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia. A string of prominent African-Americans have headed to the site this year to mark the anniversary since the first slave landing in 1619.