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An Igbo palace door carved from iroko is 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. The door would have served as the entrance to an obi, or male meeting house. The Igbo people are an ethnic group in Nigeria. Between the 15th and 19th centuries, nearly 1.5 million Igbo slaves were sold or traded in slavery. 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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An Igbo palace door carved from iroko is 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. The door would have served as the entrance to an obi, or male meeting house. The Igbo people are an ethnic group in Nigeria. Between the 15th and 19th centuries, nearly 1.5 million Igbo slaves were sold or traded in slavery. 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)