SPRINGFIELD — The Rev. Terrlyn Curry Avery stood in the darkness of a dungeon beneath a castle in Ghana, the emptiness revealing how her ancestors must have suffered in that place.
“Enslaved people would be kept in a dungeon where they had to stay in their own urine, feces, blood, vomit or whatever other sickness they had,” the Springfield-based pastor said in an interview. “They were given very little food. It was dark and they were treated severely. I imagine they were scared. Like animals, they were branded with hot irons to mark them as property.”
