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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• Plaque commemorating the bicentennial of Jose Antonio Aponte's conspiracy
• Iron punishment collar
• Slave quarters
• Final slave exit from the Cape Coast Castle
• Entrance to the town of El Cobre
• Plaque commemorating the five young abakuá who were killed in 1871
• Slave cell
• Slave trader at Gorée, Sénégal
• Remains of a road network created to transport coffee and cocoa in southeastern Cuba