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Commentary: Revisiting the brutal history of Senegal’s Gorée Island and The House of Slaves

Randolph Payton (left) and Kimatni D. Rawlins take in local expressions of art in Senegal, West Africa. (Photos courtesy of Kimatni D. Rawlins) By Kimatni D. Rawlins and Randolph Payton Nanga def ...
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U.S. Treasury Secretary visits onetime slave-trading post in Senegal

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave ...
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Yellen visits historic site of slave-trading post off the coast of Senegal

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the ...
Reuters

Yellen, at former slave port, sees path of renewal for Africa and U.S.

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Saturday spoke of the "unspeakable cruelty" and enduring consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but said she ...
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Gorée Island, in Senegal

Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Postcard image of a scene with beached boats ...