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Summary

Description: Twelve million Africans embarked in the slave ships from this beach. The commemorative Port de Non Retour (1995) marks the end of the four-kilometer Route des Esclaves from Ouidah, Benin.

Date: 14 April 2015, 15:45

Source: Port de Non Retour

Author: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada

Camera location: 6° 19′ 29.58″ N, 2° 05′ 21.75″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.

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