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Katherine Dunham

This view of Gore Island, Senegal, best known as The Door of No Return.

This view of Gore Island, Senegal, best known as The Door of No Return, is the last image that enslaved Africans saw of their homeland before being taken on the Middle Passage. Photograph by
Professor Cheikh Ndiaye, 2002. Courtesy of Professor Cheikh Ndiaye, Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures, Union College, Schenectady, New York. 26105

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