Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  Atlantic Lives

  From old worlds to new

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  Sugar and Slavery

  Reading the landscape in Guadeloupe

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  Enslaved Communities

  Everyday life and its limits

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  Freedom Fighters

  Slave-ship resistance and rebellion

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  Capture and Commerce

  Atlantic trade in people and goods

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  An Inhuman Trade

  British beads for West African people

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

• Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
• Periwinkle Initiative
• L’Anse à la Barque Indigo Plantation
• The Slave Cell of Belmont Plantation
• San Severino Castle
• Oak Alley Foundation

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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.