Since we wound up spending Saturday in Dakar, we decided to visit one of their historic sites. It is supposed to have been one of the big slave trading spots here in West Africa. How much that is true has been debated, but it was at least one of the places they did that. It also has a little history museum on the island with WWII cannons. It was very thought provoking to stand in the slave house and look out onto the ocean at a place where people looked at their homeland long ago for the last time before being herded onto a ship.
Heather
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