(2 Apr 1998) T/I: 11:04:25
US President Bill Clinton ended his 12-day trip to Africa with a visit on Thursday (02/04) to Goree Island off the coast of Senegal, once a key transit point in the slave trade between the continent and the Americas.
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GOREE ISLAND - SENEGAL 02/04
MS Bill Clinton walking on the island with President Abdou Diouf;
VS of Bill and Hillary Clinton touring the area of house of slaves at Goree Island from where slaves left for the Americas;
Bill and Hillary talking to officials;
Clinton visiting house of slaves, and being explained in French the history;
MS Bill and Hillary looking through a dark passageway that leads to the infamous "Door of No Return," (where countless Africans sold into slavery were forced onto boats for the voyage to the Americas.);
Clinton getting on podium and hand shaking with President Abdou Diouf;
SOT Clinton "Goree Island still today looks out onto the new world. Connecting two continents, standing as a vivid reminder that for some of America's ancesters, the journey to America was anything but a search for freedom."
WS Clinton on podium and being applauded by crowd;
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