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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• The Assiento, or, Contract for allowing to the subjects of Great Britain the liberty of importing negroes into the Spanish America
• A Cudgelling Match between English & French Negroes in the Island of Dominica
• Ruins of the Guáimaro Sugar Factory
• Iron punishment collar
• Plaque commemorating the bicentennial of Jose Antonio Aponte's conspiracy
• Artist Lewis Miller's Sketchbook of Virginia Landscapes, 1853-67
• Bell that tolled Cuban independence and abolition
• Abolition campaign sugar bowl
• Journal de Navigation