Senegambia
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a region in W Africa between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, now mostly in Senegal.
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a confederation of Senegal and the Gambia, formed in 1982.
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Banneker’s grandparents were said to have been an Englishwoman named Molly, who was a White indentured servant, and an enslaved Wolof man from Senegambia named Bana’ka.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
The Portuguese monarchy also hired explorers such as Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian slaver sent to scout the region of Senegambia.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
In the mid-fifteenth century, who purchased enslaved people from Mali on the Senegambia coast?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Historians have also noted that the people who were taken to Latin America from Africa disembarked from West Central Africa, but many were taken originally from other regions like Senegambia and the Bight of Benin.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
Senegal joined with The Gambia to form the nominal confederation of Senegambia in 1982, but the envisaged integration of the two countries was never carried out, and the union was dissolved in 1989.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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