Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  Many Middle Passages

  Africans and descendants in Europe

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  Atlantic Passages

  Slavery and freedom in Africa and America

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  Historical Imagination

  Peopling a modern plantation museum

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  Safeguarding the Past

  History meets memory in Barbados

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  Pacific Worlds

  Preserving the Afro-Peruvian past

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  Slavery and Revolution

  Negotiating liberty, brotherhood and bondage

A collaboration of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and dozens of sites and museums across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared past shaped by slavery and slave trade, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to forge our present and future.

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Sites & Museums Across the Globe

• Museum of Aquitaine
• Murat Plantation
• Afro-Peruvian Museum, Zaña
• The Slave Route—Traces of Memory in Guadeloupe
• Hull Museums
• Viñales Valley

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Culture & Artifacts

Examine objects, structures, landscapes, and culture from more than 50 sites and museums.

Atlantic Lives

Meet people who experienced slavery and slave trade.

History & Memory

Investigate the ideas, places, and events that made an Atlantic world.