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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• Stone archway
• Portrait of a young black man
• Plaque marking the African town council carabalí
• Artist Lewis Miller's Sketchbook of Virginia Landscapes, 1853-67
• Remains of a road network created to transport coffee and cocoa in southeastern Cuba
• The First Day of the Yam Custom
• Room of torture
• Logbook of the Bordeaux slaver Le Patriote
• Iron hand shackle