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 ...
Just 1.2 miles off the coast of Dakar in Senegal, West Africa, lies Gorée Island, or Île de Gorée, a 45-acre island, famous today for a dark reason. It is a popular destination among people ...
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 ...