In Saint-Louis, Senegal, the traces of a past linked to the transatlantic slave trade are gradually disappearing. The island is best known for its colonial heritage, but historians believe that tens of thousands of Africans reduced to slavery have passed there before being deported to the Americas. Today, one of the last slave warehouses still visible in Saint-Louis falls into ruins. Clarisse Fortuné's story.
In Saint-Louis, Senegal, the traces of a past linked to the transatlantic slave trade are gradually disappearing. The island is best known for its colonial heritage, but historians believe that tens of thousands of Africans reduced to slavery have passed there before being deported to the Americas. Today, one of the last slave warehouses still visible in Saint-Louis falls into ruins. Clarisse Fortuné's story.