23 August 2012
Senegal - Goree Island
Goree Island
The land of slaves
In this house they used to keep slaves. There were separate rooms for younger and older, for women and virgins. The last ones were mostly little girls that would be brought out from the cell and taken upstairs where there were rooms for men willing to pay for taking the virginity of the girl.
They had to monitor closely all the slaves as in those conditions it wasn't hard to get sick. One sick man could ruin the whole transaction so they would be taken away to keep others in (relative) health. They would walk through the door at the back of the house. Behind there was only the ocean where sharks would wait for lunch.
06 August 2012
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