Remembering History at Senegal’s Most Important Historical Site Gorée Island is one of Africa’s most important historical sites. It is located off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. For hundreds of years, this small island was a place where millions of enslaved Africans were held before being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Today, it is a…
When did slavery end? It’s one of the most-searched questions about this history and it’s also one of the most misleading, because the honest answer is: it didn’t, not cleanly, and not for everyone at the same time. This is the story of the transatlantic slave trade, what it built, who ran it, and the…
Look at almost any world map you’ve ever seen; the one on your classroom wall, in your atlas, on Google Maps. Greenland looks about the same size as Africa. It isn’t. Africa is roughly 14 times bigger than Greenland. Not a little bigger. Fourteen times. That’s not a rounding error. It’s one of the most…
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