The Island of Gorée is known as a former center of the Atlantic slave trade from where many Black slaves were deported to the Americas. The island of Gorée was one of the first places in Africa to be settled by Europeans, the Portuguese setting foot on the island in 1444. It was captured by the United Netherlands in 1588, then the Portuguese again, again the Dutch — who named it after the Dutch island of Goeree, and the British took it over under Robert Holmes in 1664.After the French gained c