SLAVE TRADE: The Slave Dungeons and The Bridge of no Return In Akwa Ibom.

At the bank of the Imo River estuary, a walking distance from the
Amalgamation house and colonial offices is a jetty and a bridge
designed to enable free movement to and from the river, to enable
embankment into boats and canoes. This was the famous Bridge of No
Return, a name given to it by the locals. 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. No slave that walks down the bridge ever
returns and this inormed the name "Bridge of No Return".

Also at this bridge are the slave dungeons made up of containers of
cast concrete with two tiny holes at each end to enable occupants
receive air. This is where the most stubborn slaves were kept before
shipment for the purpose of weakening their resolve. The Dungeons have
partitions, so that each cubicle holds one slave. Apart from the
dungeons, there are warehouses for goods that were later turned into
slave warehouses.
This was where the slaves were kept in preparation for their shipment.

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