Culture & Artifacts

Investigate the history and legacy of slavery and slave trade by examining objects, structures, landscapes, and culture of institutions and sites of memory in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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• Children engage in music and dance of Afro-Cuban origin
• Ankle bracelet
• Gallows Hill Assembly
• The Children of Whitney
• Opening, to the sound of drums, of the “Monument to Freedom of Slaves in America”
• The Old Plantation
• Golly Book: The Story of Little Black Sambo
• Slave Trade Abolished 1806
• Sugar kettles