‘Door of No Return,’ a disputed memorial to the slave trade

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The "Door of No Return," is a famous symbol of the slave trade but Africa scholars, will tell you a very different story. Ralph Austen, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago states, "There are literally no historians who believe the Slave House is what they’re claiming it to be, or that believe Goree was statistically significant in terms of the slave trade..." Studies suggest that 33,000 slaves were transferred from Goree Island – a huge number to be sure, but a tiny fraction of what the island's official history claims. And, of those, perhaps zero were moved from the House of Slaves or out of its Door of No Return. 

No slaves ever boarded a ship through it." The historian Ana Lucia Araujo told the news agency, "It’s not a real place from where real people left in the numbers they say.”
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