In Senegal's Saint-Louis, traces of slave-trading past are being erased
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.
Seck, from the Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum, said that according to "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade", a definitive reference on slavery deportations, some 145,000 captives were officially transported from Saint-Louis."There were many slave-holding facilities in Saint-Louis, especially in the northern part of the island, but they are no longer to be found," Diallo said, indicating that many have been converted and changed beyond recognition.
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