I told you guy in my last post that I was going to calabar, well I am calabar, it was fresh..
Well today I decided to move around calabar to see how it is, I went to the slave trade museum.
Let me just go straight ahead and explain it with photos I took, some of you may know the love I have for the shot
in order to get to Calabar from Akwa Ibom you have to go through bridges, but this was the most captivating of them all
here, I passed through the roundabout opposite the University of calabar. You can see and understand what the statue is try to portray, the lantin and the books under the lantin
i wasn't able to capture this status well enough, I was in a moving vehicle. Well this displays shows a mother with her child, showing the chain that bend the mother to her child
i finally made my way to the slave trade museum, this is where Black men and women where brought to be sold to the highest bidder after being caught or sold by their leader of family memeber.
i wasn't suppose to take a shot of this, but just had to🤧😩
another one that made tears roll down my eyes
i really don't what this one is all about
Okay that was just the beginning of the journey, you need to go and visit the museum. You will understand what out ancestors went through, and to think that the where sold by our chiefs, family members for just three pieces of mirror or sometimes 10 pieces of copper, it's heart breaking. You should check the museum out, the statue there and items there speaks words that your inner soul will understand.
Here you get to see how the blacks where treated, I can't even think of what the went through. You should certainly make your way down to calabar and then to the museum, listen to the words spoken. Just to be clear, this photos are not all there is. There are no camera allowed
I made my way to the river that the slaves would board the ships that would take them from the borders of the home to a strange land where they where molested and humiliated
A clear view of the river
a beautiful statue of an anchor
y'all know what this is right
Okay that all I got for y'all today, remember to visit this museum it will really explain our history to us.
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wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww its amazing i like it alot :) your photography is just love <3 thanks for sharing @biggijay
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you are welcome :)
kinly visit my blog and upvote my posts if you dont mind :) @biggijay
this is very nice @biggijay, you did a very cool tour here. and its very obvious you had a good time. i also felt emotional where i got to the point of the slave trade thing. its well with the black community. steemon!
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