City walkabout - Slaves and Missionaries and Markets

The birth of Swahili. The trading of ivory and spices. A fulcrum of the slave trade. History is rampant along the streets and within the buildings on this island. A thousand years of different peoples landing has left a lot of rich memories for better and worse on the landscape.

Symbols of Chains

Kept and packed like tuna

Church

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Market

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Still moving goods 100's of years later

Stone Town Sunset