A bird flies past a statue commemorating the liberation of slaves on Goree Island near Senegal's capital Dakar, March 16, 2007. European merchants and American plantation owners got rich on a ruthless trade in humans in which an estimated 12 million Africans were transported to North America, the Caribbean and Brazil between 1550 and 1850, and 2 million perished. The world marks the bicentenary of the end of the Atlantic slave trade on March 25. Picture taken March 16, 2007. To match feature SLAVERY-GHANA/
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