Barack Obama: “What a profound sorrow must have been felt as people were hauled off…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2009

What a profound sorrow must have been felt as people were hauled off into the great unknown.

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Obama expresses the emotional weight of the historical experience of enslaved Africans.

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