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Fort Anomabo, in the last stages of the British participation in the slave trade, was the only fort built specifically and solely for trading human beings. The picture shows the auction block where slaves marched from the northern hinterlands would be stripped naked, oiled for better presentation, and prodded and poked before beign sold, branded and sent to the ships outside the bar.

Fort Anomabo, in the last stages of the British participation in the slave trade, was the only fort built specifically and solely for trading human beings. The picture shows the auction block where slaves marched from the northern hinterlands would be stripped naked, oiled for better presentation, and prodded and poked before beign sold, branded and sent to the ships outside the bar.