contact
Maison des Esclaves
P.O. Box 29
Île de Gorée
Senegal
Tel: 221-33-821-7438
Fax: 221-33-821-7438
African Sites of Conscience Network
Maison des Esclaves
The African slave trade lasted 300 to 350 years; 15 to 30 million of the healthiest, strongest and most beautiful people from the African kingdoms were trafficked to plantations in the Americas. This was the greatest displacement of people in human history. Six million died from deprivation or abuse. It swept away the political evolution of Africa, and the aftereffects still reverberate in countries that practiced slavery and institutionalized it.
Mission
Maison des Esclaves is dedicated to reminding the world of the fragility of liberties and the need to preserve them, in order to move together towards a universally egalitarian civilization.
