Joe Biden addresses America’s ‘original sin’ of slavery on Angola visit
by Rachel Savage Southern Africa correspondent and ag from on (#6SNN8)
US president remembers stolen men and women and children brought to our shores' and lauds American investment in country
Joe Biden addressed America's history of enslavement in a speech on Tuesday at Angola's National Museum of Slavery, calling it our nation's original sin" during a trip in which he also lauded recent US investment in the region.
We remember the stolen men and women and children who were brought to our shores in chains, subjected to unimaginable cruelty," Biden said, as the sun set over the water behind him.
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