In a historic first, the Shinnecock Indian Nation has elected a woman, Lisa Goree, as chairwoman of the Southampton tribe. Goree, who grew up on the reservation, takes over from trustee chairman ...

did hold power-one of the few groups of women in the world at that time to do so-and oversaw parts of the slave trade on the island. As I walked through cells with hardened mud floors and ...

If a woman got pregnant by a trader, she was sometimes freed on the island. If someone fell ill or died, he was tossed into the ocean. On this day, I stroll Goree in a hat, sunscreen and ...

As she writes, for nearly three-hundred years, a number of men, women and children were taken from their homes and transported to Goree Island where they would ultimately be sold into slavery and ...

Criterion (vi): The Island of Goree is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of human societies: the slave trade. The various elements of this “memory island” – ...

President Barack Obama and his family toured the historic slave-trading outpost at Goree Island during their Senegal visit Thursday. The president talked about how powerful the visit was for him ...

DAKAR, Senegal - Thursday we woke up really early, took a bus ride and went to Goree Island. We took a ferry, which was really interesting. I met a boy named Mohammed Tupac, who was crippled ...

We took a day trip to Goree Island, visited by President Barack Obama ... who is retired now but was the first woman to serve as a judge in Senegal. Her house was built at the same time as the ...

Situated off the coast of Senegal, Gorée Island served as one of the largest slave-trading centers on the African coast from the 1530s to the 1840s. The beaches that provided the backdrop to ...