Unpacking The Return ”Home”

Detty December seems to have grown into a tourist trap marketed as a return home for Black Americans and a price hike for locals –while slave castles across West Africa (specifically Goree Island) may be overly over exaggerating its role in the middle passge for financial gain…what does it mean when tourism is centered on Black pain and how must we move forward with that knowing? 

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House of Slaves Debunk: https://www.hnn.us/blog/5969

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2005/02/13/islands-role-in-african-slave-trade-disputed/30772617007/

UNESCO world site: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/26/

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