Global Education--From Chicago to Senegal: Goree Island

The day before we left, we took a twenty-minute ferry ride from a port in Dakar to Goree Island. This island was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast from the 15th-19th centuries. The House of Slaves was the last stop before they exited the Door of No Return and entered the slave ships that would transport them to unimaginable experiences. There was a heavy feeling being in that space where so much fear and pain resided.

This would be the view as they left the House of Slaves through the Door of No Return.

Our tour guide shared with us the sad history of this space.

This was a window in a cell. It was 12 inches long and 2 inches wide.

A hallway leading to the cells

The people were separated into cells by gender and age. There was a cell for women, men, boys and girls and another for teenage girls where they would be visited by the men in charge.