Abstract
Gorée is one of the earliest Afro-European settlements off the coast of Western Africa (Fig. 10.1). This small island of only 17 hectares is one of the most controversial sites on the West African Atlantic coast. Over the past few decades, it has grown in popularity to become a site, where fragmented bodies of memories cluster and battle over the nature and significance of the Atlantic slave trade. It is a forum where popular culture competes and clashes with historical scholarship over the production and dissemination of knowledge on the infamous Atlantic slave trade.
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Thiaw, I. (2011). Digging on Contested Grounds: Archaeology and the Commemoration of Slavery on Gorée Island, Senegal. In: Okamura, K., Matsuda, A. (eds) New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0341-8_10
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