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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• Front of the Historical Museum of Guanabacoa
• The Assiento, or, Contract for allowing to the subjects of Great Britain the liberty of importing negroes into the Spanish America
• Ceramic jug
• Gallows Hill Assembly
• “Steps of the Slaves”
• Entrance to the town of El Cobre
• Iron punishment collar
• Poster advertising a slave auction
• Bell that tolled Cuban independence and abolition