Image Number: APN277612
Title: Animata Faye on her doorstep, Rue Boufflers, Ile De GorÃâÃ
½e, Rep. Senegal
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
David Larsen
Description: Between 1536 and the abolition of the slave trade, the Island of GorŽe, just off the coast at Dakar, Senegal, was used as a slave post from where hundreds of thousands of Africans were shipped to the new world to serve as slave labour on plantations. According to UNESCO the departure of the slaves to the Americas depended on the buyers. The father went to Louisiana in the USA, the mother headed for Brazil or Cuba, the child to Haiti or the West Indies. The separation was total. Ille De GorŽe was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. See http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
David Larsen
Country: Cape Verde
Location: Ile De Gor
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3408 x 2242
Media Id: 56_586
Credit: David Larsen / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
UNESCO World Heritage Site,
slave island,
slavery,
slave trade,
West Africa,
West African slave trade,
Goree Island,
young woman,
attitude,
unimpressed,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No