The island of Goree 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 Portuguese, Dutch, English and French.
The site is marked by 218 shellfish mounds, some of them several hundreds meters long, produced by its human inhabitants over the ages.
Lynn Salmon <>{ Last updated: March 22, 2012