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Anglican Christ Church Cathedral and Slave Market Memorial.

"The world's last open slave market and notorious place where slaves from the East and Central Africa regions were bought and sold.
The trade in man, woman and child was stopped by decree from the Sultan of Zanzibar on 6 June 1873
following the appeal made by Dr. David Livingstone in 1857 to the men of the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge
to liberate Africa from slavery.
The Cathedral Church of Christ was built by Bishop Edward Steere in 1874.
The Cathedral stand exactly on the site of the site of the former slave market and the high altar marks the location
of the old whipping post," There is a cross in the church made from the tree
beneath which Livingstone's heart was buried at Chitambo where he died.