Dakar

All right. Where to start? I need to upload a few photos, so I'll plant them up here and worry about the captioning as it comes around.

Pic of Tyler on the boat between Dakar and the Island of Goree. Dowtown Dakar in the background.

Goree Island was the slave trading island used by the French slave traders to sort, prepare, and group prior to departure to the buying countries. Interesting enough, the Senegalese were not enslaved, but instead were wise enough to arrange the capture and slavery of other tribes from other countries in the region.

It's a beautiful island. Small, charming, and DEEP in history. Almost every American President has (or will) visit it during their time here in the country. The conditions were obviously brutal, yet systematic. I find it interesting that the African natives could have ever forgiven the French for this part of their history. Owning a slave is no worse than the people that captured them, raped them, killed the "weak" ones, split up the families, and sold them to the highest bidder all while living in the same upstairs building living the good life.