Gorée Island, home to the House of Slaves, has become a distinct memorial to the slave trade. "It's steeped in history," Cherif Mbodji told me. We'd come from the Houston restaurateur's hometown ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

The Senegalese people called it Ber. The Portuguese renamed it Ila de Palma. The name was changed to Good Reed by the Dutch and the French called the island Goree - meaning good harbour. But the name ...

Her interest in African-American history, which began during her undergraduate studies at Trinity College, was sharpened during a 1977 summer program in West Africa. A sojourn out to Goree Island ...

In 1793, in response to this demand, successful merchants built the Goree Warehouses, named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802 ...

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