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Painful memory: In Senegal’s Saint-Louis, traces of slave-trading past fade away

A dilapidated two-century-old building in Saint-Louis, Senegal bears testament to the island's little-known past as part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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痛苦的回忆:在塞内加尔的圣路易斯,奴隶贸易的痕迹正在消逝

An aerial view of Saint-Louis, which was once a hub through which thousands of slaves passed. Today, the site is rarely mentioned in accounts of the slave trade. — Photos: AFP

A dilapidated two-century-old building in Saint-Louis, Senegal bears testament to the island’s little-known past as part of the transatlantic slave trade, the traces of which are quickly and quietly disappearing from view.

Located in the country’s north, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal River, the island is rarely mentioned in the history of the slave trade, even though it was a hub through which tens of thousands of Africans passed, according to historians.

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