The Slave House on Gorée Island is a sacred, spiritual mecca representing the transformational passage of descendants whose ancestors were displaced from continental Africa through the Trans-Atlanta slave trade. This visual essay presents an autoethnographic exploration—including first person narrative voice—to discuss spaces, places, and architectural structures central both to the Slave House as an architectural structure and to the context of Black identity. The structure, we argue, speaks of architectural beatification by Black ancestral spirits at a critical cultural moment of cultural diasporic creation and displacement of spirit and identity. It acts as a witness to the trauma of ancestral separation, the cultural memory transmitted through every taken step, and the common experience of displacement and identity that emotionally connects the present with the past.

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作为象征物的奴隶屋

戈雷岛上的奴隶之家是一个神圣的精神圣地，代表了其祖先通过跨大西洋奴隶贸易从非洲大陆流离失所的后代的转变过程。这篇视觉文章呈现了一种自我民族志探索——包括第一人称叙事声音——来讨论空间、地点和建筑结构，这对于作为建筑结构的奴隶屋和黑人身份的背景都是至关重要的。我们认为，这种结构讲述了黑人祖先精神在文化流散创造和精神和身份置换的关键文化时刻对建筑的美化。它见证了祖先分离的创伤，通过每一个步骤传递的文化记忆，