back in Cape Town

we spent the day at the slave lodge, a building that used to hold slaves. It was redone and used as a courthouse for a century, and recently turned into a museum. Excavations are starting to find evidence of it's dark past - possessions, cookware and bones from peoples captured and enslaved from India, Malaysia, West Africa and elsewhere. These memorials out front list the names retrieved from any remaining documents of slaves that were imprisoned here.