MANGA PWANI SLAVE CHAMBERS
20 km north of stone Town and 2kms up the coast from the manga pwani Coral cavern. The Slave chamber is a square underground cell that was cut out of the coralline rock with the roof on top.
The chamber was originally built by Mohammed bin Nassor Al- alwi, a prosperous slave trader to store his slaves. Boats from Bagamoyo on the Tanzania main land would unload their human cargo on a secluded beach separated from the main manga pwani beach by coral rock outcrops. The dirt path from the beach to the slave chamber still exists today.
Mohammed Nassor would keep his slaves here until it was time to take them into Zanzibar Town for sale at the slave market.
