Book contents
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Sources and Terminology
- How Do We Thrive?
- 1 Who Are the Architects of Wakanda?
- 2 What Happened at Blombos in 70,000 BCE?
- 3 Why Are the Danes So Individualistic?
- 4 Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?
- 5 How Did Joseph and His Eleven Brothers Solve the Three Economic Problems?
- 6 What Do Charlemagne and King Zwelithini Have in Common?
- 7 Why Do Indians Have Dowry and Africans Lobola?
- 8 Who Was the Richest Man Ever to Live?
- 9 How Did 168 Spanish Conquistadores Capture an Empire?
- 10 Why Was a Giraffe the Perfect Gift for the Chinese Emperor?
- 11 Who Visited Gorée Island on 27 June 2013?
- 12 What Is an Incunabulum?
- 13 Who Was Autshumao’s Niece?
- 14 What Did Thomson, Watson & Co. Purchase?
- 15 What Do an Indonesian Volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu Have in Common?
- 16 Why Was the Spinning Jenny Not Invented in India?
- 17 Why Did Railways Hurt Basotho Farmers?
- 18 What Did Sol Plaatje Find on His Journey through South Africa?
- 19 Why Can You Have Any Car as Long as It Is Black?
- 20 What Does a Butterfly Collector Do in the Congo?
- 21 Who Wrote the Best Closing Line of Modern Literature?
- 22 How Could a Movie Embarrass Stalin?
- 23 Who Is the Perfect Soldier?
- 24 What Was the Great Leap Forward?
- 25 Why Should We Cry for Argentina?
- 26 Who Was the Last King of Scotland?
- 27 How Did Einstein Help Create Eskom?
- 28 Why Would You Want to Eat Sushi in the Transkei?
- 29 Why Do the Japanese Play Rugby?
- 30 What Do Lego and the Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century Have in Common?
- 31 What Is Funny about Moore’s Law?
- 32 What Bubbles in Iceland?
- 33 What Did The Economist Get Spectacularly Wrong?
- 34 Will Madiba’s Long Walk to Freedom Ever End?
- 35 What Should No Scholar Ever Do?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - Who Visited Gorée Island on 27 June 2013?
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Africa’s Long-Run Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2022
Book contents
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Sources and Terminology
- How Do We Thrive?
- 1 Who Are the Architects of Wakanda?
- 2 What Happened at Blombos in 70,000 BCE?
- 3 Why Are the Danes So Individualistic?
- 4 Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?
- 5 How Did Joseph and His Eleven Brothers Solve the Three Economic Problems?
- 6 What Do Charlemagne and King Zwelithini Have in Common?
- 7 Why Do Indians Have Dowry and Africans Lobola?
- 8 Who Was the Richest Man Ever to Live?
- 9 How Did 168 Spanish Conquistadores Capture an Empire?
- 10 Why Was a Giraffe the Perfect Gift for the Chinese Emperor?
- 11 Who Visited Gorée Island on 27 June 2013?
- 12 What Is an Incunabulum?
- 13 Who Was Autshumao’s Niece?
- 14 What Did Thomson, Watson & Co. Purchase?
- 15 What Do an Indonesian Volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu Have in Common?
- 16 Why Was the Spinning Jenny Not Invented in India?
- 17 Why Did Railways Hurt Basotho Farmers?
- 18 What Did Sol Plaatje Find on His Journey through South Africa?
- 19 Why Can You Have Any Car as Long as It Is Black?
- 20 What Does a Butterfly Collector Do in the Congo?
- 21 Who Wrote the Best Closing Line of Modern Literature?
- 22 How Could a Movie Embarrass Stalin?
- 23 Who Is the Perfect Soldier?
- 24 What Was the Great Leap Forward?
- 25 Why Should We Cry for Argentina?
- 26 Who Was the Last King of Scotland?
- 27 How Did Einstein Help Create Eskom?
- 28 Why Would You Want to Eat Sushi in the Transkei?
- 29 Why Do the Japanese Play Rugby?
- 30 What Do Lego and the Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century Have in Common?
- 31 What Is Funny about Moore’s Law?
- 32 What Bubbles in Iceland?
- 33 What Did The Economist Get Spectacularly Wrong?
- 34 Will Madiba’s Long Walk to Freedom Ever End?
- 35 What Should No Scholar Ever Do?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Gorée is a small island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. Enjoying an exquisitely grilled filet de saint pierre in one of the harbour restaurants as the sun sets, it is easy to imagine the place as a summer resort for the West African rich and famous. But below its serene exterior lies a dark history.
On 27 June 2013 one of the descendants of the people who suffered under this dark history recounted her visit.
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- Our Long Walk to Economic FreedomLessons from 100,000 Years of Human History, pp. 58 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022