Goree pens

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April 22 The date remembers Goree Island. Goree Island is a small 45-acre island located off the coast of Senegal. Goree Island was developed as a center of the expanding European slave trade. Millions of West Africans were taken against their will. An estimated 20 million Africans passed through the Island between the mid-1500s and the mid-1800s. During the African slave trade, Goree Island was a slave-holding warehouse, an absolute center for the trade in African men, women and children. www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1519

I visited Goree island in 1982 and can still feel the painful and sorrowful reactions. Please read the full story of Goree Island @ the site listed above. Know about and fight against the slavery that is still happening in today's world.