Gorée Island

Also known as Île de Gorée, Bir

An island off Dakar held in turn by several European powers, now a memorial site of the Atlantic slave trade.

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No full entry for this place yet

Gorée Island is on the atlas, but nobody has written and sourced a full entry for it. Rather than generating one, we are leaving this blank until it can be researched properly. The coverage inventory in the repository tracks what is outstanding.

Themes: Migration & diaspora, Trade & exchange, Empires & independence