This metal màsk was used during sl@very for 3 main reasons:

This metal màsk was used during sl@very for 3 main reasons:

1) To prevent the ensl@ved from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains and sugarcanes etc while harvesting them, yet they were made to wòrk consistently in all the plantation farms.

2) To stop the ensl@ved from chanting our African spiritual songs. Not only that those our spiritual and w@r songs affected the slàve masters, it also motivated some ensl@ved to rèbel and fìght back not minding l0sing their lives.

3) To stop ensl@ved form teaching our African local dialects (languages) to their children...whereby destr0yed our dialects, and forced them to learn foreign languages.

Last but not the least, to st@rve enslàved as a punishment in the slàve camps. The màsk prevented them from eating or drinking. Sometimes the slàve màsters would f0rced an apple (a whole 🍎) into the mouths of enslàved before they wore the metal mask on them with the padlocks so that they c0uldn't talk.

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