This image of President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha in Ghana's "Door of No Return" at Cape Coast Castle ran on the front page of the AJC on July 12. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

A photo on the front page of Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution showed President Barack Obama and his daughter, Sasha, walking through the “Door of No Return” at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana.

The story said that as they passed through the doors and dungeons, “where slaves were taken as they herded onto ships,” Obama explained to his daughter what she was seeing. Later, Obama told reporters, “As painful as it is, I think that it helps to teach all of us that we have to do what we can to right against the kinds of evils that, sadly, still exist in our world.”

A sliver of that history — the very doors from the Cape Coast Castle’s “Doors of No Return” — are in Atlanta right now, as part of “America I Am: The African American Imprint” at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. The exhibition, created by Tavis Smiley, includes more than 300 artifacts, including some originally from Atlanta and Georgia. It runs through September.

The "Doors of No Return" from Ghana are part of the "America I Am" exhibition in Atlanta through Sept. 6. Photo courtesy of Eric Lesser.

From the exhibition:

Cape Coast Castle, ‘Doors of No Return’ c. 1700s-1800s. These doors were once part of the Cape Coast Castle, a slave-trading fort on the coast of Ghana. Constructed in 1653, the fortress was owned in quick succession by the Swedish, Danish, and British. Originally built for trade in gold and timber, it became a place of slave trade under British control. Captives—usually about 1,000 men and boys, and 500 women and girls—were kept in underground dungeons, awaiting the arrival of slave ships. As people passed through these doors, they were doomed to slavery and the loss of their homeland forever. Courtesy: Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III, Ghana

Want to go? “America I AM: The African American Imprint” runs through Sept. 6., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays and Fridays-Saturdays; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays; noon-5 p.m. Sundays. Closed Mondays. Tickets (purchased for a specific date) are available at Ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. $12, adults; $5, ages 4-17; $8, age 65 and up and for groups of 10 or more. Discounted tickets ($10, adult; $4, children) are available at Wal-Mart stores throughout Georgia. Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta 404-523-6275, www.americaiam.org.