Experts' Choice Award Mangapwani Slave Chamber
What the experts agree on
This haunting underground chamber carved into coral rock held enslaved women and children in secret after the slave trade was officially banned in the late 1800s—a sobering but essential piece of Zanzibar's history.
“This dark cell cut into the coral rock was used as a holding pen to hide slaves after the legal trade was abolished in the late 19th century.”
– Lonely Planet
Afar Magazine "My guide leads me underground into a dark, damp, stone-walled holding cell which, I am told, was reserved for women and children only." Full review
