Photo of the Moment: Portal of Sorrow, Gorée Island

Posted by Mike Richard on May 20, 2008
Filed under: Photography, Senegal, Sidelines

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© The Wandering Angel

It’s not so much the photo, but rather the caption that’s important:

Gorée Island was one of the biggest slave trading outposts in West Africa during the 16th & 17th Centuries. Men, women & children were collected from the region, and herded into holding pens in the island. They were then made to pass through this door and into waiting slave ships, where they eventually were sold, destined to the colonies of the New World. For thousands this door represented the last connection they had with Africa.

Heartbreaking.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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