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The Isle of No Return: A Senegalese Base for Slave Trading |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Chuck Graham |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,055 Words, 11,847 Characters |
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We ease into port from Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa. As the ferry draws closer to Gorée Island, it feels like we've returned to the seventeenth century. At that time, this colorful and ancient island was one of the most active slave ports in the world.
I had arrived in Senegal with mixed feelings. My eight previous trips to Africa were inspired by the vast herds of wildlife, the landscapes they thrive in, the mountains that hover above them, and the rivers that rage through the plains. I am not here for wildlife viewing this time; my keen interest in history has lured me to Gorée Island.
At the airport, I am met by my guide Khaly, a member of the Wolof tribe that is dominant in this region of West Africa. He's a tall man, with a friendly face and broad features, and his extremely d...
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...lls and staying there for a while would leave me severely inflexible.
I know it's time to catch the ferry to Dakar as I enter the light of the courtyard. Khaly is waiting, holding a pair of rusty, decaying shackles. He clangs them together, and the noise fills the courtyard. We leave with the sound still ringing in our ears, a vivid reminder of the atrocities once committed on this island.
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