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Article: Seychelles: A history of slavery
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- New African
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Once upon a time the shores of the Seychelles offered shelter to hundreds of liberated African slaves. Tony Mathiot recently visited one such spot, the "Mission Ruins", the sanctuary where the children of freed African slaves stayed.
IT IS AN OLD PLACE OF MOURNFUL beauty and sweet, peaceful gloom that arouses a titillating sensation of poignancy in the visitor. The "Mission Ruins" are actually the ruins of Venn's Town, an industrial institution and sanctuary that accommodated children of liberated African slaves between 1876 and 1889.
Situated in the hills of Sans Soucis on the east side of Mahé, the main island 151 sq km) of the Seychelles archipelago, the institution was named after ...