THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE
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This ghostly building with a terraced garden was the former customs house, converted into the governor's mansion.
A former customs pavilion built in 1893 from prefabricated iron buildings shipped from Europe, now converted into the governor's mansion. Situated on a rocky promontory on the peninsula separating the river from the ocean, this ghostly building, perched on its terraced garden, seems to wait resignedly for time to rescue it from interminable abandon. Like the wharf, which also seems frozen in time awaiting the ultimate collapse, it is a powerful symbol of Sassandra's historical identity. A visit here is a fitting end to a stroll along the beach at the western end of the cliff. From up there, the view of the bay and the river is simply majestic. Be careful, however, not to get your sights set on the nearby Sassandra civil prison, which is strictly off-limits to photography.
The former slave market is located a little way down in the gardens of the residence. A sort of agora, it now serves as a vegetable garden for the civil prison. It was here, after scouring the continental zones for able-bodied arms, that the slave traders came to offer their "merchandise" to the whites. The whites, having selected those they deemed fit to make the voyage of no return to the New World, would park them by the hundreds in the slave prison, a cave-muirror located in the basement of an ancient mansion in Bassa, a small village adjacent to Drewin, 7 km away.
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