Gorée Island in Senegal Is a Powerful Reminder of History
Named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978, Gorée Island is most visited for the House of Slaves: once a holding cell for ...
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Goree, the Slave Island
The Senegalese people called it Ber. The Portuguese renamed it Ila de Palma. The name was changed to Good Reed by the Dutch and the French called the island Goree - meaning good harbour. But the name ...
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Island of Gorée
The international campaign for the safeguarding of the Island of Gorée has as its objective the rehabilitation of the heritage and the socio-economic revitalization of the Island, the principal ...
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The Goree Warehouses, Liverpool
In 1793, in response to this demand, successful merchants built the Goree Warehouses, named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802 ...