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2022-2023 Common Read - How the Word is Passed: Gorée Island

"One slave is too much"

Gorée Island

View of the Island from the ferry

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Gorée Island

John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

1839 Print showing the House of Slaves

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House of Slaves

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Door of No Return

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Holding areas, House of Slaves, sign says Jeunes Filles, French for girls

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Cellule des Recalcitrants, House of Slaves

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