Overview

Slave Chambers: Built around 1880 from the cave and connected to the seaside 2kms away, the area is surrounded by varieties Breadfruit, Ramboutants and scent shrubs.

The Mangapwani Slave Chamber is a couple of kilometers away from the coast of the Coral Cave. Albeit sometimes called the Slave Cave, it is a square-formed cell that has been removed of the coralline rock, with a roof on top. It was initially worked for putting away slaves, and its development is ascribed to one Mohammed bin Nassor Al-Alwi, a significant slave dealer. Boats from the mainland would empty their human payload on the close by the beach, and the slaves would be kept here prior to being taken to Zanzibar Town for resale, or to plantations on the island. After 1873, Sultan Barghash authorized the Anglo-Zanzibari deal which officially abrogated the slave exchange, the cave was utilized as a spot to conceal slaves, as an illegal exchange proceeded for a long time

It was an important transit point for the captured slaves to be sold to the outside world at the time of the abolishment of slavery in 1873. Between 1880-1905, the chamber was being used as a place of concealment of the human cargo pending their disposal.