Slave trade has for centuries now been a great topic of discussion especially among Africans considering the fact that our forefathers were the biggest victims of it.
One of the common practices of the European masters is the use of metal musk’s to cover the mouth of their victims.
In fact they know exactly what they are doing as the use of this metal masks has three major reasons for it’s use.
1) To prevent the slaves from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains and sugarcanes etc while harvesting them, yet they were made to work consistently in all the plantation farms.
2) To stop the slaves from chanting our African spiritual songs. Not only that those our spiritual and war songs affected the slave masters, it also motivated some slaves to rebel and fight back not minding losing their lives.
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3) To stop slaves form teaching our African local dialects (languages) to their children…whereby destroyed our dialects and forced them to learn foreign languages.
Sometimes the slave masters would forced an apple (a whole) into the mouths of slaves before they wore the metal mask on them with the padlocks so that they couldn’t talk.
