This scene shows life in a typical African village and is designed to help visitors appreciate African culture with close-knit families keeping their own animals and tending the land. As the back-lit wall display reveals, all too often these villagers fell victim to slave raiding parties.
The captured slaves would be branded before being marched to the coast where they were traded to European slavers, this journey was known as the march of death. A record was made of this transaction as can be seen in our 'Sold - lock, stock and barrel' scene.
The slaves now face transportation to the New World and all the terrors that await there, but first they must survive the treacherous journey across the Atlantic. We continue our tour by going below decks on a slave ship as it makes this crossing.
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