Philly Middle Passage Project
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The Philadelphia Middle Passage Ceremony and Port Marker Project is leading the movement to conduct an annual Ancestral Remembrance Ceremony at Penn's Landing. The purpose of the ceremony is to acknowledge Penn's Landing, and other locations on the Delaware River, as one of 175 ports of entry for Africans during the transatlantic human trade; to commemorate the nearly 2 million Africans who peri
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