Less than 2 miles from Dakar lies the island of Goree deeply rooted in the history of the slave trade.
From the beginning of the 16th century to the 19th, men, women and children in huge numbers were gathered on this small piece of land, locked up in cells and shipped away to the New World. Goree became the first, and for a time, the most important slave depot in West Africa. From its "door of no return", Fulanis, Wolofs, Mandingoes and Bambaras (the latter from Mali) were taken from their homeland to toil in the Americas.
