Portrait of an Island - Hinchman Mark
Portrait of an Island - Hinchman Mark The once-famous trading center of Gor e, S n gal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured…
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Portrait of an Island - Hinchman Mark
The once-famous trading center of Gor e, S n gal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gor e became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade.
They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Multiple features of eighteenth-century Gor e-its demographic diversity; the prominence of