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Black Heritage Museum, Badagry

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Black Heritage Museum, Badagry

Boekoh quarters, GRA Road, Marina

Badagry

itkworld.com/listing/badagry-heritage-museum.html

Type: History Centers, Monuments & Historic Sites, Museums & Galleries

Supported by the Nigerian Cultural Commission, the Heritage Museum, housed in the former district officer’s office built in 1863, holds hundreds of artifacts and historical relics that chronicle more than 300 years of the movement of slaves through Lagos. From the early 1500s, Badagry was one of many trading and transport areas in West Africa for slaves being shipped off to America—it is estimated that roughly 550,000 African slaves passed through this area. As you journey through the museum’s nine galleries, you’ll be faced with sobering reminders like trade documents, sketches, photos, sculptures and other salvaged historical records that documented the city’s dark past. In addition to the Heritage Museum, the entire town of Badagry is a living historical museum—from the 1502 open market where slaves were auctioned off to makeshift baracoon cells which were used to keep slaves to the final exit routes used in the 17th and 18th centuries to transfer slaves to the Point of No Return at the tip of the peninsula.
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Black Heritage Museum, Badagry
Boekoh quarters, GRA Road, Marina
Badagry
Lagos
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