Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  An Atlantic World

  Lives shaped by sugar and slavery

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  Pacific Worlds

  Preserving the Afro-Peruvian past

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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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  Historical Imagination

  Peopling a modern plantation museum

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  Freedom Fighters

  Slave-ship resistance and rebellion

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

• The Departmental Museum Victor Schœlcher
• Municipal Museum of Guanabacoa
• Ruins of La Demajagua Sugar Factory
• Tumba Francesa
• Royall House and Slave Quarters
• Ghana Museums and Monuments

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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.