Senegal: The Door of No Return (TRIH ep 272)
1500 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the history and modern meaning of Gorée Island and its House of Slaves in Senegal. They open with the evocative image of the 'door of no return' and trace Gorée's evolution from a marginal, disease-ravaged Atlantic outpost to a multi‑power trading hub (Portuguese, Dutch, English, French) and later a preserved symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Around 1500
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- The Reformation (1517)