Second day of Universities Studying Slavery conference in Halifax talks reparations, politics and combatting erasure of African Nova Scotian histories through archival research. Day two of the Universities Studying Slavery conference in Halifax began with breakfast in view of the harbour at the Halifax Marriott Hotel. This Thursday Oct. 19 morning, the former president of Ghana, His Excellency John D. Mahama, spoke to a full ballroom about emotionally connecting Ghana to Nova Scotia through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which was "a door of no return" for so so many enslaved Africans stolen from Ghana…