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this group of investors [who] really transferred technical skills (technology) to the region. The acquisition of those technologies, coupled with the managerial skills which they also acquired during their period of apprenticeship enabled the indigenes to establish and efficiently manage their own business establishment (Udoka, 1991, pp. 311-312).  
By the close of the revolutionary nineteenth century, the liberated Africans were held in high esteem and revered as heroes by the multiracial population that had converged on Calabar. In addition to changing the socioeconomic landscape of the city, they had also reshaped the character of race relations; and symbolically, they had demonstrated the ability of Africans to reach the highest point of human endeavour, as well as their adaptability in making the most of any given opportunity.