How I Finally Learned That Trauma Does Not Define Me [themarshallproject.org]
By Marlon Peterson, The Marshall Project, January 23, 2020. I celebrated the 10th anniversary of my release from a New York prison in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. I was there to participate in The Year of Return , a countrywide commemoration of the 400 years since the first Africans were trafficked to the British colony now known as Virginia. Yes, I went to Afrochella . But on December 23—10 years to the day that I left prison—I was compelled to visit the Cape Coast Castle, a trading...