Скачать или смотреть Let's visit the Slave Route in Ouidah. We can't forget the past and the suffering of our ancestors.

On that short video, our tour guide will take us to the Slave Road. The Slave Route is a trail situaded in Ouidah (Benin) that covers the last 4 kilometers that more than one million people kidnapped in Africa to be enslaved had to take before boarding the ships that would take them to America. It consists of six main stages: Plaza Chacha, where enslaved people who arrived were auctioned; the “Tree of Oblivion”, replanted in 1992, that commemorates the tree where men went round nine times and women seven so that, in accordance with the voodoo tradition, they would forget their origin; the “Zomai House”, where slaves waited for the arrival of the so-called slave ships; the “Memorial of Zoungbodji”, the mass grave where dead slaves were thrown; the “Tree of Return” that would allow their souls to return to their land of origin after their death. The route ends where the ships used to arrive, today symbolized with the artistic work “The Door of No Return”. The different stages of the route are symbolized by artistic works strongly inspired in the voodoo cult.