2006, Goree Island, Senegal. Door of No Return. Always remind myself to write on story behind the picture instead of the photo itself. This is an ordinary photo taken on Goree Island, once a African slave exporting port years ago. Yet, it brought me depressing and unforgetable impacts. Man and woman, even child are sent here to be exported. They were slaved forever in other lands, with NO RETURN to Africa. Those who are sick, suffered and passed away in this slave port were thrown out into sea via the door too (There are sharks all around that area). A heartrending story which etched in my mind forever.
This is the layout of slave ship. Slaves were arranged to lie down in rows for space saving! Their hands and necks are locked! Imagine they were spending months to travel on sea! They had been tortured by rain in night and sun in day time!
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