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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• Nineteenth-century carriage
• Cigar display in the form of a slave statuette
• Map of Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
• Doño Juana making tamales
• Artist Lewis Miller's Sketchbook of Virginia Landscapes, 1853-67
• Dundún drums of the house-temple of the Divine Charity
• Musical instrument collection and local musicians
• La Mahaudière Plantation
• Room dedicated to Cuban religiosity of African origin, San Severino Castle