Obamas at the 'Door of No Return': First Family makes emotional trip to former slaving port in Senegal from where captives were shipped to America - never to see their homeland again


President Obama and his family visited Goree Island outside of Dakar


  • The island is where ships picked up slaves bound for North America 

  • Hundreds of slaves were kept in tiny cells and chained for up to three months when they waited for their ships to arrive

  • Obama said it was a reminder for why civil rights need to be protected

  • Visit came just hours after he blasted his host, the President of Senegal, for the country's laws that criminalize homosexuality


    • President Barack Obama has spent the afternoon touring a Senegalese island where Africans were shipped across the Atlantic into slavery and he called the visit a 'very powerful moment.'  

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    Obama says visiting Goree Island Thursday with his family helps them fully appreciate the magnitude of the slave trade. They toured the museum at the Maison des Esclaves where slaves were gathered before going through the 'Door of No Return' and being forced onto ships bound for North America.

    Obama also said that, as an African American and an African-American president, the trip gaves him even greater motivation to stand up for human rights around the world, and the visit came just hours after he clashed with his Senegalese hosts over gay rights. 

    He said the island is a reminder of what happens when civil rights are not protected. 









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