Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean rests her head on the bars in the "room of no return," the final point in a castle where African slaves were once passed through and boarded on ships, at Elmina Castle in Ghana, Wednesday, Nov.29, 2006. The castle, an imposing stone fortress on the Ghanaian coast, once served as a major gateway for the slave trade to the Americas.(CP PHOTO/Fred Chartrand)

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