Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Island of Gorée' has mentioned 'France' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Historical affiliations Portugal 1444xe2x80x931588xc2xa0Dutch Republic 1588xe2x80x931629 Portugal 1629xc2xa0Dutch Republic 1629xe2x80x931664xc2xa0England 1664xe2x80x931677 France 1677xe2x80x931758xc2xa0Great Britain 1758xe2x80x931763 France 1763xe2x80x931779xc2xa0Great Britain 1779xe2x80x931783xc2xa0France 1783xe2x80x931960xc2xa0Senegal 1960xe2x80x93present | WIKI |
| There were brief periods of British occupation during the various wars fought by France and Britain. | WIKI |
| The island was notably taken and occupied by the British between 1758 and 1763 following the Capture of Gorxc3xa9e and wider Capture of Senegal during the Seven Years' War before being returned to France at the Treaty of Paris (1763). | WIKI |
| In the 18th and 19th century, Gorxc3xa9e was home to a Franco-African Creole, or Mxc3xa9tis, community of merchants with links to similar communities in Saint-Louis and the Gambia, and across the Atlantic to France's colonies in the Americas. | WIKI |
| In February 1794 during the French Revolution, France abolished slavery, and the slave trade from Senegal was said to have stopped. | WIKI |
| Many of the school's graduates would one day lead the struggle for independence from France. | WIKI |
| Du Bois wrote of the school "On the picturesque island of Goree whose ancient ramparts face modern and commercial Dakar I saw two or three hundred fine black boys of high school rank gathered in from all Senegal by competitive tests and taught thoroughly by excellent French teachers in accordance with a curriculum which, as far as it went, was equal to that of any European school," while faulting Colonial France for how limited its public education infrastructure was in the country overall and expressing pessimism about further investment. | WIKI |
| Latyr Sy, djembe musician France Gall, the French singer, owned a home there | WIKI |