This is Dame Sarah's first pastoral visit to Africa since being installed as head of the Church of England at a ceremony in Canterbury Cathedral in March. "It completely throws you off balance and brings home the evil that was transatlantic slavery." Above the dungeons sits a chapel, which she said was a "stark illustration of the way the church was involved in the slave trade". The Church of England has previously apologised for its associations with the slave trade. Its missionary arm ran slave-farmed plantations in the Caribbean to fund the spread of Anglicanism, individual members of clergy were slave owners, and the Church received large donations from slave traders.