While at the Last Bath House, the Chamber Singers began to sing one of the Negro Spirituals they had been singing during the tour, “This Little Light of Mine.” During the song I imagined my own ancestors in chains, fearful, bathing in that river and praying for deliverance. They were supposed to bathe before the journey southward to a dungeon where they would be held before boarding slave ships to traverse the Atlantic. The Last Bath House is the location where enslaved Africans of the Mid-Atlantic Slave trade were taken after being stolen and/or sold into slavery. Late one evening we visited the Last Bath House located north of Cape Coast. In 2007, I ventured to Ghana, West Africa, with a group of students touring together in a Chamber music group.
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