PRIVATE MUSEUMS

Several private collections also offer to retrace the slaves' journey from capture to departure - Mobee Museum, named after the family that kept the relics exhibited at the museum - or to show their jails before embarking for the Americas - Seriki Abass Museum. The second, built in 1840, is located in former slave barracks named after the Nigerian slave family who ruled them at the time for the benefit of Brazilian merchants, hence its other name, Brazilian Baracoon, derived from the Portuguese barraco, hut. You will also be able to see a sign posted by Abass' descendants on one of the doors indicating "we are Seriki Abass' family, and we are sorry for what he did"... The 10 square metre jails each housed up to 40 slaves, who were paid for small everyday objects: umbrellas, ceramics, mirrors or pistols... Once purchased at the Vlekete Slave Market, from which you can see a mural sculpture not far away on Marina Road, the captives could stay in the cells for up to 90 days before boarding via the point of no return.