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Mon 07 Jul 2009'We'd lie in the canoe and our master beat us'
Generations continue to be linked by the cruelty, misery and trauma of slavery, writes ROBYN DIXONin Kpone, Ghana
REBECCA AGWU told her five-year-old son John not to cry when she sent him away to live with relatives four years ago. Mary Mootey also sent away Evans, telling him he was going off to school. The two boys, now nine, from the same town in Ghana, ended up being forced to work 14 hours a day fishing on Lake Volta and being beaten for the smallest lapse.
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