Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  African Roots

  Society and trade in pre-colonial Africa

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  Freedom Fighters

  Slave-ship resistance and rebellion

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  Between Horror and Hope

  Middle passages from Africa to America

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  An Inhuman Trade

  British beads for West African people

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  Historical Imagination

  Peopling a modern plantation museum

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  Many Middle Passages

  Africans and descendants in Europe

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

• Fort Fleur-d’Epée
• Nantes History Museum, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany
• Tumba Francesa
• Royall House and Slave Quarters
• Beausoleil Plantation
• Indigo Plantations of the East Coast

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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.