Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  Atlantic Lives

  From old worlds to new

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  Heart and Soul

  Faith and freedom in Louisiana

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  Capture and Escape

  An Atlantic journey to freedom

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  Enslaved Communities

  Everyday life and its limits

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  Picturing the Past

  Enslaved people and portraiture

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  An Atlantic Life

  To the Americas and back

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

• Ghana Museums and Monuments
• L’Anse à la Barque Indigo Plantation
• Municipalities of Regla-Guanabacoa
• Chateau de Joux
• Whitney Plantation
• Ruins of La Demajagua Sugar Factory

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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.