Hey everybody, it's Baudelaire, now just about every day you hear us introduce the show

as a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Most of the time the places we profile are uplifting or their testaments to human creativity.

But sometimes we need to visit places that have darker histories, places that have been

overlooked not because they're in some small town or because they're off the beaten

path, but because the stories of these places are difficult to confront.

And because sometimes these places have actually been kept out of the history books.

Today we're going to visit one of those places.

Let's begin with the story, the story of a mother.

The guy telling this story is Atoa Shun, who spoke with me from Ghana.

A woman had two kids.

She was going to the market to get something for the kids.

That's when she stepped out of the house, walked broke out.

Every effort to go back to her to the house to take care of her kids, filled.

So she was captured.

She was brought to the Amina dungeons.

She survived the dungeons.

She survived the mother passage, and she ended up in jail in America today.

Now that's not the story of any specific woman, but we know that this story happened repeatedly.

Mother's kidnap torn away from their children.

That happened.

And it wasn't just mothers, those fathers, grandparents, it's a real story.

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