A VISIT TO A HISTORICAL PLACE BY @ubongudofot

Hello Friends, I trust you all are doing great?
I made a visit to a very interesting place in my area. And let me tell you what…, this place is actually a touring center due to its historical legacy.

Join me in my adventure

When I was in high school many years ago, I use to like history a lot and my history teacher talks much about the Amalgamation House and the bridge of no return. Those two places are so significant for the citizens of Nigeria and not just Nigeria but black race in Europe and America as a whole. So I figure out it will be wise visit to those places. Guess what ?, i did. And i want to share my adventure to those places with you all. Trust me it’s actually a nice adventure.
Now let’s have a look at how I spent my day.

Let's start with the sign post

First, I visited the amalgamation House located in Ikot abasi, Akwa ibom state, Nigeria. The amalgamation House was where the then governor of the Northern Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, Sir Lord Frederick Lugard, on January 1, 1914, signed a document as evidence proving the merging of the two entities into one, this is in the history of Nigeria till date, a significant one indeed. That house also serves as administrative headquarters of Lord Lugard. This house is not far from the local government secretariat.

It is in the midst of what was then the colonial seat of government and it’s about a minute walk to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Amalgamation House has just two rooms and the walls and floors are made up of woods but the foundation of the structure is made of concrete blocks that is raised a little bit above the ground. The building is actually over 100years.

The Amalgamation House, picture taken by me.

I also visit Sir Fredrick lord Lugard living house, it will interest you to know that , that very building is still in existence till today and it's over 100 years as well.

Sir Fredrick lord Lugard living house, this building is over 100 years

Next, I visited was the bridge of no return. This was the famous Bridge of No Return, the name was given to it by the locals and any slave that passed through this bridge never returned.

The sign post explain everything about the bridge

The sign post

The bridge of no return

I actually climb the bridge and i returned, it's no more slavery era

The Slaves were walked down this bridge to the canoes for onward movement to the slave ships that lay anchored at the middle of the high sea waiting for their human cargoes for onward journey through the Atlantic Ocean to the vast plantations in Europe and Americas.

This was where slaves where kept before moving them to Europe and America

At this point i was shedding tears, when i saw were humans where kept for many days

No slave that walks down the bridge ever returns. Unfortunately, some of them died along the way but some also survived and for those ones that survived they are the ones we know today as African-American or black Americans. The Caribbean’s are inclusive. This is their origin. I shed tears when I visit this section, because I was trying to imagine what those people passed through.

The Atlantic Ocean where black slaves where transported to Europe and America

But I am grateful because such doesn’t exist anymore. We can actually climb the bridge and return now.
I hope you’ve learn something from my post, and i want to encourage you all to visit there sometimes because you will get to know more about some vital history , you can use it to write a project in school and of course visiting there could be a very nice ground to educate folks about Steemit, just like i did.

Thank you very much for reading my post and i believe you've learnt something new as we learn everyday.

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