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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• Landscape that surrounded the coffee plantations of southeastern Cuba
• Beads manufactured in London for trade in West Africa
• Central park of the colonial city of Trinidad
• Confectioner
• “Tana” musician with “Checo,” or calabash
• The “Big House”
• “Monument to Freedom of Slaves in America”
• Armchair attributed to Monticello Joinery
• Yorktown, Virginia marker