EN: The House of Slaves (French: Maison des Esclaves) is a museum and monument to the Atlantic slave trade on the small island of Gorée, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Its museum, opened in 1962 and managed until his death in 2009 by Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, is said to commemorate the final departure point of slaves from Africa. Historians differ on how many, or if all, African slaves actually passed through this building, as well as the relative importance of Gorée Island as a point of the Atlantic slave trade, but visitors from Africa, Europe and the Americas, along with world leaders, hold it up as an important place to remember the human cost of African slavery.[
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At the entrance, there is a plaque that puts:
"Cette maison restauree par
Gorèe Fraternite
association parraine par
la fondation France-Libertes
a ete inaguree le 5 decembre 1990 par
Madame Danielle Mitterrand
et Madame Elisabeth Diouf"
EN: "This house restored by
Gorèe Fraternite
association sponsored by
the Fondation France-Libertes
was inaugurated on December 5, 1990 by
Madame Danielle Mitterrand
and Madame Elisabeth Diouf"
Danielle Mitterrand
"Danielle Mitterrand , born Gouze onOctober 29, 1924in Verdun ( Meuse ) and died onNovember 22, 2011in Paris 15th , is the wife of François Mitterrand , President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 . A former member of the Resistance and a committed personality in the associative world, she created the France Libertés - Danielle-Mitterrand Foundation in 1986 , which she chaired until her death."
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Madame Elisabeth Diouf
"First Lady of Senegal (French: Première Dame du Sénégal) is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Senegal. The country's current first lady is Marieme Faye Sall, wife of President Macky Sall, who had held the position since April 2, 2012. There has been no first gentleman of Senegal to date."
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