CultureIn Senegal’s Saint-Louis, traces of its slave-trading past are fading
A crumbling, two-century-old building on Senegal’s Saint-Louis island recalls its little-known role in the transatlantic slave trade. Although tens of thousands of Africans passed through the island, the northern hub is seldom included in accounts of the trade, and its remaining traces are rapidly and quietly disappearing.
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In Senegal’s Saint-Louis, traces of its slave-trading past are fading
Culture