Culture & Artifacts

Investigate the history and legacy of slavery and slave trade by examining objects, structures, landscapes, and culture of institutions and sites of memory in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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• Wooden sculpture depicting woman with child
• Tumba Francesa musicians playing the tambores and catá
• Coronation of the King of Whydah, April 1725
• Viñales Valley
• Model of slave quarters at a sugar cane plantation
• Slave trader at Gorée, Sénégal
• View of the 40 days of fire of the plain houses at Cap-Français
• Doño Juana making tamales
• Armchair attributed to John Hemmings