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English: Originally known as the government house, it was prefabricated in Britain in 1884 and erected at Calabar. The building was the seat of the British colonial administration for the Southern Protectorate of Nigeria. The building and its compound were declared a National Monument (No. 20) in 1959 and was renovated by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in 1986.
Oba Overamwen of Benin was deported to Old Calabar in 1897 and detained in the same building, where he died. The colonial building houses the world’s largest quantity of original Nigerian artefacts and documents as well as an exhibition of the slavery trade. Calabar used to be Britain’s busiest trading post: almost one-third of the total number of Africans the British abducted from the end of the 17th century until the abolition of slavery in 1807 was shipped from here.
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