We've been in and out of Gambia. Gambia is a former British colony completely surrounded by French-speaking Senegal. It was taken by the British so that they could use the Gambia River to transport slaves. (The Brits outlawed slave trade in 1811 and slavery in 1833.) We drove past the village where Kunta Kinte was born (see Alex Haley's Roots). We stayed at Georgetown and did a town tour on foot. We saw the Wesleyan Mission school, founded in 1824. Georgetown became a refuge for freed slaves, including those who
left other colonies.
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