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What Was the Real Role of Gorée Island in the Atlantic Slave Trade? - Gorée Island and the Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade | Sleepy Facts About History
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The pink-walled House of Slaves on Gorée Island, with its narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic, is one of the most recognized images of the Atlantic slave trade. Millions of people are believed to have passed through this Door of No Return into the Middle Passage. Yet the historical records suggest a more complicated reality. While Gorée was a real site of commerce and captivity, its scale was vastly smaller than ports like Luanda or Ouidah, and the famous doorway is a modern memorial…
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