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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• Stoneware jug
• Pigeonnier
• Plaque commemorating the arrival of the first enslaved people
• Bell of Mariâ Angole
• Iron branding stick
• Cigar display in the form of a slave statuette
• Ku Klux Klan outfit
• Painting of young lady piercing the ear of her black servant
• “The residents of Champagney voice their grievances, 1789”