Along this beautiful sea cost lies a sad story. The story of many George Floyids. This is Zanzibar which was a slave trading hub. Just behind the green bushes in the picture there is a sandy beach where the slaves kept in the slave chamber were brought and taken by boat to the ship docked. This beach is known as Smuggling beach as the slave trading continued here even after slave trading was abolished. Male and female slaves were kept in two different compartments , chained to the wall of the slave chamber for three days before shipping. These chambers are underground structures and airhole is kept for oxygen. They were chained with their hands up in standing position and those three days they had to stand in that position. There are many such chambers in Zanzibar with access to sea by tunnel or so close to the sea so that they can walk to the boat directly from the chamber. Sometimes if the chief of the tribe does not like a person or a family, he would sell them to the slave traders. Slave trading was abolished in 1873 and even after that Omani slave traders continued to do it exploiting the tribal rivalry.
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