The room containing three beds and one window was excavated in a villa buried by the 79 A.D. volcanic eruption. Officials say it offers "a very rare insight into the daily life of slaves" in the ancient city.

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After years of tension between indigenous people and the African Americans that settled in Liberia, some are hopeful for the future of Africa's first independent colony.

There has been a global outrage against the slave trade in Libya after a CNN report exposed the evil act a few days back. The International Organization for Migration has confirmed that Africans trying to reach Europe were being sold by their captors in "slave markets" in Libya.

As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism.