House of SlavesMaison des Esclaves

House of Slaves stands on Goree Island as Senegal’s most charged memorial to the Atlantic slave trade and the colonial order that made captivity ordinary. Its serene pink façade hides a spatial hierarchy—traders’ rooms above, narrow cells below—ending in the Door of No Return, a sea-facing threshold that has become a global symbol of rupture and diaspora. Whatever the exact numbers once held here, the building concentrates grief, remembrance, and demands for accountability.