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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• Beads manufactured in London for trade in West Africa
• La Mahaudière Plantation
• Plaque commemorating the five young abakuá who were killed in 1871
• The Wall of Honor
• Slave quarters
• Punch Pond
• Remains of a road network created to transport coffee and cocoa in southeastern Cuba
• Brass bells
• Iron foot shackles