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Bronze manillas are displayed at the “Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade” exhibit at GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, March 3, 2023, in Mobile, Alabama. Manillas were used as currency and valued by weight. Manillas were first made in Africa but were outlawed in colonial Nigeria in 1949 in order to standardize currency. The traveling exhibit, which opened in January and continues through June 2023, examines the history of the Atlantic Slave trade from the 16th through the 19th centuries. GulfQuest opened in 2015 and features more than 90 interactive exhibits celebrating the Gulf Coast’s rich maritime heritage. It is one of only two interactive maritime museums in the United States. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
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Bronze manillas are displayed at the “Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade” exhibit at GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, March 3, 2023, in Mobile, Alabama. Manillas were used as currency and valued by weight. Manillas were first made in Africa but were outlawed in colonial Nigeria in 1949 in order to standardize currency. The traveling exhibit, which opened in January and continues through June 2023, examines the history of the Atlantic Slave trade from the 16th through the 19th centuries. GulfQuest opened in 2015 and features more than 90 interactive exhibits celebrating the Gulf Coast’s rich maritime heritage. It is one of only two interactive maritime museums in the United States. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)